Jeremiah 25

1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),Cross-references: 2Ki 24:1 · Jer 36:1 · Jer 46:2 · Dan 1:1

2which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:Cross-references: Ps 49:1 · Jer 18:11 · Jer 19:14 · Jer 26:2 · Jer 35:13 · Jer 38:1 · +1 more

3From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.Cross-references: Gen 22:3 · Ex 8:20 · 1Ki 22:3 · 2Chr 34:3 · 2Chr 34:8 · Ps 81:13 · +13 more

4Yahweh 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),Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Jer 7:24 · Jer 11:7 · Jer 13:10 · Jer 16:12 · Jer 17:23 · +14 more

5saying, “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.Cross-references: Gen 17:8 · 2Ki 17:13 · Ps 37:27 · Ps 105:10 · Isa 55:6 · Jer 7:7 · +10 more

6Don’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.”Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Ex 20:23 · Deut 6:14 · Deut 8:19 · Deut 13:2 · Deut 28:14 · +7 more

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.”Cross-references: Deut 32:21 · 2Ki 17:17 · 2Ki 21:15 · Neh 9:26 · Prov 8:36 · Jer 7:18 · +1 more

8Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words,

9behold, 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · Deut 28:45 · 1Ki 9:7 · Prov 21:1 · Isa 5:26 · Isa 10:5 · +18 more

10Moreover 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.Cross-references: Esth 3:13 · Esth 7:4 · Esth 8:11 · Eccl 12:2 · Isa 24:7 · Jer 7:34 · +5 more

11This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:21 · Isa 23:15 · Jer 4:27 · Jer 12:11 · Jer 25:12 · Dan 9:2 · +2 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · 2Ki 24:1 · Ezra 1:1 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:23 · +14 more

13I 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.Cross-references: Jer 1:5 · Jer 1:10 · Dan 5:28 · Dan 5:31 · Rev 10:11

14For 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.”Cross-references: Ps 137:8 · Isa 14:2 · Isa 45:1 · Isa 66:6 · Jer 27:7 · Jer 50:9 · +8 more

15For 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.Cross-references: Job 21:20 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 75:8 · Isa 51:17 · Isa 51:22 · Jer 13:12 · +3 more

16They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”Cross-references: Jer 25:27 · Jer 51:7 · Jer 51:39 · Lam 3:15 · Lam 4:21 · Ezek 23:32 · +5 more

17Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:Cross-references: Jer 1:10 · Jer 25:28 · Jer 27:3 · Jer 46:1 · Ezek 43:3

18Jerusalem, 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;Cross-references: Josh 6:18 · 1Ki 8:24 · 2Ki 22:19 · Ezra 9:7 · Neh 9:36 · Ps 60:3 · +13 more

19Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;Cross-references: Jer 43:9 · Jer 46:2 · Jer 46:13 · Ezek 29:1 · Nah 3:8

20and 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;Cross-references: Gen 10:23 · Gen 22:21 · Ex 12:38 · 1Sam 6:17 · 1Chr 1:17 · Neh 13:23 · +11 more

21Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;Cross-references: Ps 137:7 · Isa 15:1 · Isa 25:10 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 63:1 · Jer 9:26 · +11 more

22and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;Cross-references: Jer 27:3 · Jer 31:10 · Jer 47:4 · Jer 49:23 · Ezek 26:1 · Ezek 28:22 · +6 more

23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;Cross-references: Gen 10:7 · Gen 22:21 · Gen 25:15 · 1Chr 1:30 · Job 6:19 · Isa 21:13 · +5 more

24and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;Cross-references: Gen 25:2 · Gen 25:12 · Gen 37:25 · 1Ki 10:15 · 2Chr 9:14 · Isa 21:13 · +5 more

25and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · Gen 14:1 · Gen 25:2 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 22:6 · +6 more

26and 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.Cross-references: Isa 13:1 · Isa 47:1 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:12 · Jer 50:1 · Jer 51:41 · +4 more

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.”’Cross-references: Deut 32:42 · Isa 51:21 · Isa 63:6 · Jer 12:12 · Jer 25:16 · Jer 46:10 · +7 more

28It 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.Cross-references: Job 34:33 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 46:10 · Jer 4:28 · Jer 49:12 · Jer 51:29 · +3 more

29For, 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.”’Cross-references: 1Ki 8:43 · Prov 11:21 · Prov 11:31 · Prov 17:5 · Isa 10:12 · Jer 13:13 · +12 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 26:15 · 1Ki 9:3 · 2Chr 30:27 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 58:5 · Ps 78:65 · +14 more

31A 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.”Cross-references: Isa 34:8 · Isa 66:16 · Jer 45:5 · Ezek 20:35 · Ezek 38:22 · Hos 4:1 · +3 more

32Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: 2Chr 15:6 · Isa 5:28 · Isa 30:30 · Isa 34:2 · Isa 66:18 · Jer 23:19 · +4 more

33The 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:37 · Ps 79:3 · Ps 83:10 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 34:2 · Isa 66:16 · +10 more

34Wail, 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.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:10 · Ps 2:9 · Isa 2:16 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 30:14 · Isa 33:1 · +20 more

35The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.Cross-references: Job 11:20 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 24:21 · Jer 32:4 · Jer 34:3 · Jer 38:18 · +11 more

36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for Yahweh destroys their pasture.Cross-references: Jer 4:8 · Jer 25:34

37The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 27:10 · Isa 32:14

38He 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.Cross-references: Ps 76:2 · Jer 4:7 · Jer 5:6 · Jer 49:19 · Jer 50:44 · Hos 5:14 · +4 more