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          DASV: Jeremiah 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. It was the same as the first year of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon.
2 Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
3 "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah
the son of Amon, king of Judah to this day, the word of the
LORD has come to me. I have spoken to you repeatedly, but
you have not listened.
4 Even though the LORD repeatedly sent to you all his servants
the prophets, you have still not listened or paid attention.
5 They said, 'Turn now everyone from his evil way, from the
evil actions, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given
to you and to your forefathers forever and forever.
6 Do not go after other gods to serve or worship them, and do
not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, then I
will do you no harm.'"
7 "Yet you have not listened to me," says the LORD, "you have
provoked me to anger with the work of your hands to your
own harm."
8 Therefore, this is what the LORD of hosts says: "Because
you have not listened to my words,
9 I will send and gather all the tribes of the north,
says the LORD, led by Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and
against its inhabitants, and against all the surrounding
nations. I will utterly destroy them and make them an
object of horror, a hissing ridicule, and a perpetual
ruin.
10 Moreover I will remove from them the voice of laughter
and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride,
the sound of the millstones and the night lights of the
lamps in their homes.
11 This whole land will become a desolate wasteland and
these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy
years.
12 When seventy years are completed, I will punish the king
of Babylon and that nation, because of their iniquity,"
says the LORD, "I will make the land of the Chaldeans
desolate forever.
13 I will bring on that land all my words that I have
pronounced against it, everything that is written in this
book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the
nations.
14 For many nations and great kings will enslave them,
and I will repay them according to their deeds and according
to the work of their hands."

15 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to
me: "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and
make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
16 They will drink, stagger, and then go crazy, because
of the sword that I will send among them."
17 So I took the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all
the nations to whom the LORD had sent me drink it:
18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings and
officials, to make them a desolation, an object of horror,
a hissing ridicule, and a curse, as it is this day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants and officials and
all his people;
20 along with all the foreigners there, and all the kings
of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the Philistines,
that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
22 as well as all the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the
kings of the coastland which is across the sea;
23 Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and all those who are in distant
regions;
24 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the various
groups that live in the desert;
25 and all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;
26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one after
another; in short, all the kingdoms of the world that are
upon the face of the earth. Finally, even the king of
Sheshach will drink.

27 "You will say to them, 'This is what the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit, then
fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I will
send among you.'
28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to
drink, then you will say to them, 'This is what the LORD
of hosts says: You have to drink it.
29 For, look, I am beginning to bring disaster on the
city that is called by my name. How then can you avoid
being punished? You will not be unpunished; for I will
call for a sword against all the inhabitants of the
earth,'" says the LORD of hosts.

30 Therefore prophesy against them all these words,
and say to them,
     "The LORD will roar from on high,
           and utter his voice from his holy habitation;
      he will roar mightily against his fold;
           he will give a shout,
      as they that tread grapes,
           against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A clamor will resound to the ends 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.

32 This is what the LORD of hosts says,
      "Look, disaster will spread from nation to nation,
      and a tremendous storm will arise from the distant
      regions of the earth."

33 Those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one
end of the earth to the other. They will not be grieved
over, or gathered, or buried. They will be like manure
spread on the face of the ground.
34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry;
      wallow in ashes, you leaders of the flock;
      for the days of your slaughter have fully come
      and you will fall like precious pottery.
35 The shepherds will have nowhere to flee to,
      or the leaders of the flock to escape to.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
      and the wailing of the leaders of the flock,
      for the LORD is laying waste their pasture.
37 The peaceable dwellings will be laid waste
      because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38 Like a lion he has come out of his lair;
      for their land is become a wasteland,
      because of the fierceness of the oppressor's sword,
          and because of his fierce anger.

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