Jeremiah 25

Repeated Calls for Repentance Jeremiah 25:4–7

⁴Verse 4. Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear), ⁵Verse 5. saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more. ⁶Verse 6. 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; then I will do you no harm.” ⁷Verse 7. “Yet you have not listened to me,” says Yahweh; “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.”

The Coming Judgment Jeremiah 25:8–11

⁸Verse 8. Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words, ⁹Verse 9. behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “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. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. ¹⁰Verse 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.

¹¹Verse 11. This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Judgment on Babylon Jeremiah 25:12–14

¹²Verse 12. “It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. ¹³Verse 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. ¹⁴Verse 14. For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”

The Cup of Wrath Jeremiah 25:15–29

¹⁵Verse 15. For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. ¹⁶Verse 16. They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.” ¹⁷Verse 17. Then took I the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: ¹⁸Verse 18. Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;

¹⁹Verse 19. Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people; ²⁰Verse 20. and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; ²¹Verse 21. Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon; ²²Verse 22. and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; ²³Verse 23. Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off; ²⁴Verse 24. and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;

²⁵Verse 25. and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; ²⁶Verse 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. The king of Sheshach will drink after them. ²⁷Verse 27. “You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’ ²⁸Verse 28. It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

²⁹Verse 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 on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’

The Extent of Judgment Jeremiah 25:30–38

³⁰Verse 30. “Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them,“‘Yahweh 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 grapes,against all the inhabitants of the earth.³¹Verse 31. A noise will come even to the end of the earth;for Yahweh 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 Yahweh.”³²Verse 32. Yahweh of Armies says,“Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation,and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”³³Verse 33. The slain of Yahweh will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground.³⁴Verse 34. Wail, you shepherds, and cry.Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock;for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come,and you will fall like fine pottery.³⁵Verse 35. The shepherds will have no way to flee.The leader of the flock will have no escape.³⁶Verse 36. A voice of the cry of the shepherds,and the wailing of the leader of the flock,for Yahweh destroys their pasture.³⁷Verse 37. The peaceful folds are brought to silencebecause of the fierce anger of Yahweh.³⁸Verse 38. He has left his covert, as the lion;for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression,and because of his fierce anger.