Jeremiah 25

Revised Geneva Translation

25 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, which was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel.

² which Jeremiah the Prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

³ “From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day (that is, the twenty-third year), the Word of the LORD has come to me. And I have spoken it to you, rising early and speaking. But you would not hear.

⁴ “And the LORD has sent to you all His servants, the Prophets, rising early and sending them. But you would not hear or incline your ears to obey.

⁵ “They said, ‘Everyone turn back now from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your inventions, and you shall dwell in the land that the LORD has given you, and to your fathers, forever and ever.

⁶ ‘And do not go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them. And do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, and I will not punish you.

⁷ Nevertheless, you would not hear Me,’ says the LORD, ‘but have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.’

⁸ “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My Words,

⁹ ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the North,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations all around and will destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and a continual desolation.

¹⁰ ‘Moreover, I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the noise of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

¹¹ ‘And this whole land shall be desolate, and an astonishment. These nations shall serve the king of Babel for seventy years.

¹² ‘And when the seventy years are completed, I will reckon with the king of Babel and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquities,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make it a perpetual desolation.

¹³ ‘And I will bring upon that land all My Words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this Book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all nations.

¹⁴ ‘For many nations and great kings shall be served by them. Thus will I recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.’

¹⁵ For thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken to me: ‘Take this cup of wine of indignation from My Hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

¹⁶ ‘And they shall drink and be moved and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.’”

¹⁷ Then I took the cup from the LORD’s Hand, and made all people drink to whom the LORD had sent me:

¹⁸ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them desolate, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day,

¹⁹ Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,

²⁰ and all sorts of people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

²¹ Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites,

²² and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the Isles who are beyond the sea,

²³ and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who dwell in the uttermost corners,

²⁴ and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of Arabia who dwell in the desert,

²⁵ and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of [u]Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.

²⁶ And all the kings of the North, far from and near to one another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the Earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

²⁷ “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”

²⁸ ‘But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand, to drink, then tell them, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘You shall certainly drink.

²⁹ ‘For lo, I begin to plague the city where My Name is called upon. And should you go free? You shall not go acquitted. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the Earth,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”

³⁰ ‘Therefore, prophesy all these words against them, and say to them, “The LORD shall roar from above and thrust out His Voice from His holy habitation. He shall roar upon His habitation, and cry aloud, as those who press the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the Earth.

³¹ “The sounds shall come to the ends of the Earth. For the LORD has a controversy with the nations and will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give to the sword those who are wicked,” says the LORD.’

³² “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, a plague shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth.

³³ ‘And the slain of the LORD shall be on that day from one end of the Earth to the other end of the Earth. They shall be neither mourned nor gathered nor buried but shall be as the dung upon the ground.

³⁴ ‘Howl, you shepherds, and cry! And wallow in the ashes, you leader of the flock! For your days of slaughter and dispersion are fulfilled, and you shall fall like precious vessels.

³⁵ ‘And the shepherds shall have no refuge, and the leader of the flock no escape.

³⁶ ‘A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the leader of the flock, shall be heard. For the LORD has destroyed their pasture.

³⁷ ‘And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the LORD.

³⁸ He has forsaken His covert, as the lion. For their land is waste because of the wrath of the oppressor, and because of the wrath of His indignation.’”