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text-decoration:none">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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,)</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words,</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">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.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.</a> The Destruction of Babylon <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.</a> The Cup of God's Wrath <a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18to wit , Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20and all the mingled 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;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">24and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">25and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-26.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">26and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-27.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-28.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">28And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-29.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">29For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-30.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, Jehovah 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 they that tread the grapes , against all the inhabitants of the earth.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-31.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">31A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith Jehovah.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-32.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">32Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-33.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">33And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.</a> The Cry of the Shepherds <a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">34Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes , ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-35.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-36.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-37.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-38.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">38He hath 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.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,</a> 8. <a href="/jeremiah/25-8.htm">foretells the seventy years' captivity;</a> 12. <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">and after that, the destruction of Babylon.</a> 15. <a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all nations.</a> 34. <a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">The howling of the shepherds.</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah 1: The Words of Jeremiah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2.htm">Jeremiah 2: Israel Has Forsaken God</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3.htm">Jeremiah 3: The Polluted Land</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4.htm">Jeremiah 4: God Calls Israel by His Promise</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5.htm">Jeremiah 5: No One is Just</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6.htm">Jeremiah 6: Jerusalem's Final Warning </a> <a href="/jeremiah/7.htm">Jeremiah 7: Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8.htm">Jeremiah 8: Judah's Sin and Punishment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9.htm">Jeremiah 9: Jeremiah's Continual Tears</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10.htm">Jeremiah 10: The Sovereignty of God</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11.htm">Jeremiah 11: The Broken Covenant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12.htm">Jeremiah 12: The Prosperity of the Wicked</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13.htm">Jeremiah 13: The Linen Belt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14.htm">Jeremiah 14: Drought, Famine, Sword, Pestilence</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15.htm">Jeremiah 15: Judgment to Continue</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16.htm">Jeremiah 16: Disaster is Predicted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17.htm">Jeremiah 17: The Sin and Punishment of Judah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18.htm">Jeremiah 18: The Potter and the Clay</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19.htm">Jeremiah 19: The Broken Jar</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20.htm">Jeremiah 20: Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21.htm">Jeremiah 21: Jerusalem Will Fall to Babylon </a> <a href="/jeremiah/22.htm">Jeremiah 22: A Warning for Judah's Kings </a> <a href="/jeremiah/23.htm">Jeremiah 23: David's Righteous Branch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24.htm">Jeremiah 24: The Good and Bad Figs </a> <a href="/jeremiah/25.htm">Jeremiah 25: The Seventy Year Captivity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26.htm">Jeremiah 26: Warning to the Cities of Judah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27.htm">Jeremiah 27: The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar </a> <a href="/jeremiah/28.htm">Jeremiah 28: Hananiah's False Prophecy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29.htm">Jeremiah 29: Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30.htm">Jeremiah 30: Restoration of Israel and Judah </a> <a href="/jeremiah/31.htm">Jeremiah 31: Mourning Turned to Joy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32.htm">Jeremiah 32: Jeremiah Buys Hanamel's Field</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33.htm">Jeremiah 33: Restoration Promised Again</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34.htm">Jeremiah 34: A Prophecy Against Zedekiah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/35.htm">Jeremiah 35: Obedience of the Rechabites</a> <a href="/jeremiah/36.htm">Jeremiah 36: Jeremiah's Scroll Read in the Temple</a> <a href="/jeremiah/37.htm">Jeremiah 37: Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah </a> <a href="/jeremiah/38.htm">Jeremiah 38: Jeremiah Cast Into the Cistern</a> <a href="/jeremiah/39.htm">Jeremiah 39: The Fall of Jerusalem</a> <a href="/jeremiah/40.htm">Jeremiah 40: Jeremiah Remains in Judah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/41.htm">Jeremiah 41: Gedaliah Assassinated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/42.htm">Jeremiah 42: Warning Against Going to Egypt </a> <a href="/jeremiah/43.htm">Jeremiah 43: Jeremiah Taken to Egypt </a> <a href="/jeremiah/44.htm">Jeremiah 44: Judgment on the Jews in Egypt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/45.htm">Jeremiah 45: Jeremiah's Message to Baruch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46.htm">Jeremiah 46: The Judgment on Egypt </a> <a href="/jeremiah/47.htm">Jeremiah 47: The Judgment on the Philistines</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48.htm">Jeremiah 48: The Judgment on Moab</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49.htm">Jeremiah 49: The Judgment on the Ammonites</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50.htm">Jeremiah 50: The Judgment on Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51.htm">Jeremiah 51: Severe Judgment Against Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52.htm">Jeremiah 52: The Fall of Jerusalem Recounted </a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a 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