# Jeremiah 25 📖
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## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Seventy Years of Servitude for Failure to Give Heed
[[#Verse 01.]] In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah. (That was the same as the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.)
[[#Verse 02.]] So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem.
[[#Verse 03.]] “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah until now, the Lord’s messages have come to me and I have told them to you over and over again. But you would not listen.
[[#Verse 04.]] Over and over again the Lord has sent his servants the prophets to you. But you have not listened or paid attention.
[[#Verse 05.]] He said through them, ‘Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession.
[[#Verse 06.]] Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’
[[#Verse 07.]] So, now the Lord says, ‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’
[[#Verse 08.]] “Therefore, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘You have not listened to what I said.
[[#Verse 09.]] So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy the land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
[[#Verse 10.]] I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.
[[#Verse 11.]] This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’
[[#Verse 12.]] “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!
[[#Verse 13.]] I will bring on that land everything that I said I would. I will bring on it everything that is written in this book. I will bring on it everything that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
[[#Verse 14.]] For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too. I will repay them for all they have done.’”
### Judah and the Nations Will Experience God’s Wrath
[[#Verse 15.]] So the Lord, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision: “Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
[[#Verse 16.]] When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
[[#Verse 17.]] So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand. I made all the nations to whom he sent me drink the wine of his wrath.
[[#Verse 18.]] I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!
[[#Verse 19.]] I made all these other people drink it: Pharaoh, king of Egypt; his attendants, his officials, his people,
[[#Verse 20.]] the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines, the people of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, the people who had been left alive from Ashdod;
[[#Verse 21.]] all the people of Edom, Moab, Ammon;
[[#Verse 22.]] all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
[[#Verse 23.]] the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples;
[[#Verse 24.]] all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;
[[#Verse 25.]] all the kings of Zimri; all the kings of Elam; all the kings of Media;
[[#Verse 26.]] all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms that are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.
[[#Verse 27.]] Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
[[#Verse 28.]] If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘You most certainly must drink it!
[[#Verse 29.]] For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished. For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, affirm it!’
[[#Verse 30.]] “Then, Jeremiah, make the following prophecy against them: ‘Like a lion about to attack, the Lord will roar from the heights of heaven;
from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly.
He will roar mightily against his land.
He will shout in triumph, like those stomping juice from the grapes,
against all those who live on the earth.
[[#Verse 31.]] The sounds of battle will resound to the ends of the earth.
For the Lord will bring charges against the nations.
He will pass judgment on all humankind
and will hand the wicked over to be killed in war.’
The Lord so affirms it!
[[#Verse 32.]] The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says,
‘Disaster will soon come on one nation after another.
A mighty storm of military destruction is rising up
from the distant parts of the earth.’
[[#Verse 33.]] Those who have been killed by the Lord at that time
will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other.
They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried.
Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.
[[#Verse 34.]] Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers!
Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people!
The time for you to be slaughtered has come.
You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.
[[#Verse 35.]] The leaders will not be able to run away and hide.
The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.
[[#Verse 36.]] Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders.
Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks.
They are wailing because the Lord
is about to destroy their lands.
[[#Verse 37.]] Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste
by the fierce anger of the Lord.
[[#Verse 38.]] The Lord is like a lion who has left his lair.
So their lands will certainly be laid waste
by the warfare of the oppressive nation
and by the fierce anger of the Lord.”
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