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Jeremiah 25

Prophecy of the Captivity

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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the  afourth year of  bJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the  cfirst year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

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which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the  apeople of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

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"From the  athirteenth year of  bJosiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day,  1these  ctwenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you  2 dagain and again, but you have not listened.

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"And the LORD has sent to you all His  aservants the prophets  1again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

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saying, ` aTurn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the LORD has given to you and your forefathers  bforever and ever;

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and  ado not go after other gods to  1serve them and to  2worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.'

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"Yet you have not listened to Me," declares the LORD, "in order that you might  aprovoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

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"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, `Because you have not obeyed My words,

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behold, I will  asend and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, `and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,  bMy servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will  1utterly destroy them and  cmake them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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`Moreover, I will  1 atake from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the  bsound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

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aThis whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon  bseventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

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`Then it will be  awhen seventy years are completed I will  bpunish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, `for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and  cI will make it an everlasting desolation.

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`I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in  athis book which Jeremiah has prophesied against  ball the nations.

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`( 1For  amany nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will  brecompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)' "

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For thus the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me, "Take this  acup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

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"They will  adrink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

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Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and  amade all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:

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 aJerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

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 aPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and all his people;

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and all the  1 aforeign people, all the kings of the  bland of Uz, all the kings of the land of the  cPhilistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of  dAshdod);

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 aEdom,  bMoab and the sons of  cAmmon;

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and all the kings of  aTyre, all the kings of Sidon and the kings of  bthe coastlands which are beyond the sea;

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and  aDedan, Tema,  bBuz and all who  ccut the corners of their hair;

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and all the kings of  aArabia and all the kings of the  1 bforeign people who dwell in the desert;

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and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of  aElam and all the kings of  bMedia;

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and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and  aall the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of  1 bSheshach shall drink after them.

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"You shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " aDrink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the  bsword which I will send among you."'

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"And it will be, if they  arefuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts: " bYou shall surely drink!

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"For behold, I am  abeginning to work calamity in this city which is  bcalled by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for  cI am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the LORD of hosts.'

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"Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them, `The  aLORD will  broar from on high And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His  1fold. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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`A clamor has come to the end of the earth, Because the LORD has  aa controversy with the nations. He is entering into  bjudgment with all flesh; As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,' declares the LORD."

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Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, evil is going forth From  anation to nation, And a great  bstorm is being stirred up From the remotest parts of the earth.

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"Those  aslain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the  1other. They will  bnot be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like  cdung on the face of the ground.

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"Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And  awallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your  bslaughter and your dispersions  1have come, And you will fall like a choice vessel.

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aFlight will perish from the shepherds, And escape from the masters of the flock.

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"Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the masters of the flock! For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

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"And the peaceful  1 afolds are made silent Because of the  bfierce anger of the LORD.

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"He has left His hiding place  alike the lion; For their land has become a horror Because of the fierceness of the  1oppressing sword And because of His fierce anger."



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