{Jer 25:1-15-38, 36:1-32, 45:1-46:28 **}
25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (what was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),25:2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Jehovah has come to me and I have spoken to you*, rising up early and speaking. But you* have not listened.
25:4 And Jehovah has sent to you* all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you* have not listened, nor inclined your* ear to hear), 25:5 saying, Return now each one from his evil way and from the evil of your* practices and dwell in the land that Jehovah has given to you* and to your* fathers, from everlasting even to everlasting. 25:6And do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them and provoke me not to anger with the work of your* hands. And I will not hurt you*.
25:7 Yet you* have not listened to me, says Jehovah, that you* may provoke me to anger with the work of your* hands to your* own hurt.
25:8 Therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Because you* have not heard my words, 25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants of it and against all these nations all around. And I will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and everlasting desolations.
25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 25:11 And this whole land will be a desolation and an astonishment. And these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
25:12 And it will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says Jehovah, for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it desolate everlasting.
25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 25:14 For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.
25:15 For Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 25:16 And they will drink and reel to and fro and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
25:17 Then I took the cup at Jehovah's hand and made all the nations to drink, to whom Jehovah had sent me: 25:18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings of it and the rulers of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day, 25:19 Pharaoh King of Egypt and his servants and his rulers and all his people, 25:20 and all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of the Uz and all the kings of the Philistines and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod, 25:21Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon, 25:22 and all the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Sidon and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea, 25:23 Dedan and Tema and Buz and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, 25:24 and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness, 25:25 and all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and all the kings of the Medes, 25:26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, with one another and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth. And the king of Sheshach will drink after them.
25:27 And you will say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Drink you* and be drunken and spew and fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you*.
25:28 And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you will say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus: You* will surely drink.25:29 For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name and should you* be utterly unpunished? You* will not be unpunished. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah of hosts.
25:30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words and say to them, Jehovah will roar from on high and utter his voice from his holy dwelling. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
25:31 A noise will come even to the end of the earth, for Jehovah has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgment with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Jehovah.
25:32 Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, evil will go forth from nation to nation and a great tempest will be raised up from the outermost parts of the earth. 25:33 And the slain of Jehovah will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They will not be lamented, nor gathered, nor buried; they will be manure upon the face of the ground.
25:34 Wail, you* shepherds and cry. And wallow, principal men of the flock. For the days of your* slaughter and of your* dispersions have fully come and you* will fall like a desirable vessel. 25:35And the shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the principal men of the flock to escape. 25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds and the wailing of the principal men of the flock!
For Jehovah lays waste their pasture. 25:37 And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah. 25:38 He has left his covering as the lion. For their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword and because of his fierce anger.