Jeremiah, starting at chapter 25
{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 (the same 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 the LORD has come to me,
and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have
not listened. {25:4} The LORD 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 everyone from
his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land
that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and
even forevermore; {25:6} and don't go after other gods to serve them
or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your
hands; and I will do you no harm. {25:7} Yet you have not listened to
me, says the LORD; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of
your hands to your own hurt. {25:8} Therefore thus says the LORD of
Hosts: Because you have not heard my words, {25:9} behold, I will send
and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and [I will
send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against
all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make
them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
{25:10} 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 sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. {25:11}
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these
nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. {25:12} It
shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish
the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD, for their
iniquity, and the land of the Kasdim; and I will make it desolate
forever. {25:13} I will bring on 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 shall 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 thus says the LORD, 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} They
shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword
that I will send among them. {25:17} Then took I the cup at the LORD's
hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:
{25:18} [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings,
and its princes, 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 princes, 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; {25:21} Edom, and Moab, and the children 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, one with
another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface
of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. {25:27}
You shall tell them, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel:
Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the
sword which I will send among you. {25:28} It shall be, if they refuse
to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus
says the LORD of Hosts: You shall 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 shall not be unpunished; for I will
call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of
Hosts. {25:30} Therefore prophesy you against them all these words,
and tell them, the LORD will roar from on high, and utter his voice
from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he
will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the
inhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A noise shall come even to the end
of the earth; for the LORD 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 the LORD. {25:32} Thus says the LORD of Hosts,
Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm
shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. {25:33} The
slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even
to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither
gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
{25:34} Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you
principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your
dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.
{25:35} The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of
the flock to escape. {25:36} A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and
the wailing of the principal of the flock! for the LORD lays waste
their pasture. {25:37} The peaceable folds are brought to silence
because of the fierce anger of the LORD. {25:38} He has left his
covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because
of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce
anger.
{26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word from the LORD, saying, {26:2} Thus says
the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the
cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the
words that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word.
{26:3} It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil
way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them
because of the evil of their doings. {26:4} You shall tell them, Thus
says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which
I have set before you, {26:5} to listen to the words of my servants
the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending
them, but you have not listened; {26:6} then will I make this house
like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the
earth. {26:7} The priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. {26:8} It
happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD
had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the
prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely
die. {26:9} Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying,
This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate,
without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the
house of the LORD. {26:10} When the princes of Judah heard these
things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD;
and they sat in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's [house].
{26:11} Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to
all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has
prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
{26:12} Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people,
saying, the LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against
this city all the words that you have heard. {26:13} Now therefore
amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your
God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced
against you. {26:14} But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with
me as is good and right in your eyes. {26:15} Only know for certain
that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on
yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth
the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
{26:16} Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to
the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us
in the name of the LORD our God. {26:17} Then rose up certain of the
elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people,
saying, {26:18} Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah,
saying, Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the
high places of a forest. {26:19} Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all
Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear the LORD, and entreat the favor
of the LORD, and the LORD relented of the disaster which he had
pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our
own souls. {26:20} There was also a man who prophesied in the name of
the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he
prophesied against this city and against this land according to all
the words of Jeremiah: {26:21} and when Jehoiakim the king, with all
his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought
to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled,
and went into Egypt: {26:22} and Jehoiakim the king sent men into
Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him,
into Egypt; {26:23} and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and
brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and
cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. {26:24} But
the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they
should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
{27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
{27:2} Thus says the LORD to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on
your neck; {27:3} and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king
of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of
Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come
to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; {27:4} and give them a command
to their masters, saying, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
Israel, You shall tell your masters: {27:5} I have made the earth, the
men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great
power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right
to me. {27:6} Now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the
field also have I given him to serve him. {27:7} All the nations shall
serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own
land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their
bondservant. {27:8} It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom
which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that
will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that
nation will I punish, says the LORD, with the sword, and with the
famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his
hand. {27:9} But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to
your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to
your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king
of Babylon: {27:10} for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far
from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should
perish. {27:11} But the nation that shall bring their neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let
remain in their own land, says the LORD; and they shall till it, and
dwell therein. {27:12} I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to
all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king
of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. {27:13} Why will
you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning the nation that will not
serve the king of Babylon? {27:14} Don't listen to the words of the
prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of
Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. {27:15} For I have not sent
them, says the LORD, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may
drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who
prophesy to you. {27:16} Also I spoke to the priests and to all this
people, saying, Thus says the LORD: Don't listen to the words of your
prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the
LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they
prophesy a lie to you. {27:17} Don't listen to them; serve the king of
Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation? {27:18}
But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let
them now make intercession to the LORD of Hosts, that the vessels
which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king
of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon. {27:19} For thus says
the LORD of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and
concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that
are left in this city, {27:20} which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the
nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; {27:21} yes, thus says the LORD of
Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the
house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at
Jerusalem: {27:22} They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall
they be, until the day that I visit them, says the LORD; then will I
bring them up, and restore them to this place.
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