ULT JER Chapter 25

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25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all of the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah—that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all of the people of Judah and to all of the dwellers of Jerusalem, saying, 3 “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, and until this day—this is twenty-three years—the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened. 4 And Yahweh has sent to you all of his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened, and you have not extended your ear to hear, 5 saying, ‘Turn back, please, each man from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land that Yahweh gave to you and to your fathers from everlasting to everlasting. 6 And do not go after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, and do not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will not do harm to you.’ 7 Yet you have not listened to me”—the declaration of Yahweh—“so as to provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your harm.

8 Therefore, thus says Yahweh of Armies, ‘Because you have not listened to my words, 9 behold, I am sending and I will take all of the families of the north”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its dwellers and against all of these nations all around, and I will devote them to destruction and will make them a horror and a hissing and to an eternal desolation. 10 And I will cause to perish from them the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the sound of the bridegroom and the sound of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

11 And all of this land will become a ruin, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 And it will happen, when seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation”—the declaration of Yahweh—“for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13 And I will bring upon that land all of my words that I have spoken against it, all of that which is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all of the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings will also make them serve, even them, and I will repay them according to their deed and according to the work of their hands.’ ”

15 For thus says Yahweh, God of Israel, to me, “Take this cup of the wine of the wrath from my hand, and you will make all of the nations to which I am sending you drink it. 16 And they will drink and will stagger and will act like madmen, from the face of the sword that I am sending among them.” 17 And I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh, and I made all of the nations drink, those to which Yahweh had sent me: 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its officials, to make them a ruin, a desolation, a hissing, and a curse, as on this day; 19 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his officials and all of his people, 20 and all of the mixed people, and all of the kings of the land of Uz, and all of the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod; 21 Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon; 22 and all of the kings of Tyre and all of the kings of Sidon and the kings of the coastland that is across the sea; 23 and Dedan and Tema and Buz and all of the ones cut at the corner of their hair; 24 and all of the kings of Arabia and all of the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; 25 and all of the kings of Zimri and all of the kings of Elam and all of the kings of Media; 26 and all of the kings of the north, the near and the far, a man to his brother, and all of the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

27 “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk and vomit and fall, and do not rise, from the face of the sword that I am sending among you.’ 28 And it will happen, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Drinking, you shall drink. 29 For behold, in the city over which my name is called I am beginning to bring harm, and you, being acquitted will you be acquitted? You will not be acquitted, for a sword I am calling against all of the dwellers of the earth”—the declaration of Yahweh of Armies.

30 “And you, you will prophesy to them all of these words and say to them,

‘Yahweh will roar from the height,

and from the habitation of his holiness he will give his voice.

Roaring, he will roar against his pasture;

a shout like those who are treading, he will sing

to all of the dwellers of the earth.

31 A tumult will come to the end of the earth,

for Yahweh has a dispute with the nations.

He is entering into judgment with all flesh;

the wicked—he will give them to the sword’ ”—the declaration of Yahweh.

32 Thus says Yahweh of Armies,

“Behold, disaster is going out from nation to nation,

and a great storm will be stirred up

from the farthest parts of the earth.

33 And the slain of Yahweh shall be on that day

from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth.

They shall not be mourned,

and they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried.

They will be as dung on the face of the ground.

34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry out,

and roll in the dust, you nobles of the flock,

for your days for slaughter and your dispersions have been fulfilled,

and you shall fall like a vessel of delight.

35 And refuge shall vanish from the shepherds,

and escape from the noble ones of the flock.

36 There is the sound of the cry of the shepherds

and the wailing of the nobles of the flock,

for Yahweh is destroying their pasture.

37 And the pastures of peace are devastated,

from the face of the burning of the nose of Yahweh.

38 He has left his lair like the young lion,

for their land has become a desolation,

from the face of the burning of the oppressor

and from the face of the burning of his nose.”