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I, the LORD, have spoken. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/jeremiah/25-9.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/jeremiah/25-9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/jeremiah/25-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/25.htm">Chapter 25</a> > Verse 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/25-8.htm" title="Jeremiah 25:8">◄</a> Jeremiah 25:9 <a href="../jeremiah/25-10.htm" title="Jeremiah 25:10">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/25.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/jeremiah/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />'I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the LORD, have spoken. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an object of horror and of hissing, and an everlasting disgrace.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/jeremiah/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and now I will let you be attacked by nations from the north, and especially by my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. You and other nearby nations will be destroyed and left in ruins forever. Everyone who sees what has happened will be shocked, but they will still make fun of you. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the LORD—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.</p><p class="hdg">I.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/1-15.htm">Jeremiah 1:15</a> For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/5-15.htm">Jeremiah 5:15,16</a> Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-1.htm">Jeremiah 6:1,22-26</a> Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/8-16.htm">Jeremiah 8:16</a> The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/26-25.htm">Leviticus 26:25</a> And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-45.htm">Deuteronomy 28:45-50</a> And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/21-1.htm">Proverbs 21:1</a> As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-26.htm">Isaiah 5:26-30</a> And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5</a> Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/39-7.htm">Isaiah 39:7</a> And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/1-6.htm">Habakkuk 1:6-10</a> For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own. . . . </p><p class="hdg">Nebuchadrezzar.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/27-6.htm">Jeremiah 27:6</a> And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/40-2.htm">Jeremiah 40:2</a> And the general of the army taking Jeremiah, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/43-10.htm">Jeremiah 43:10</a> And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I have hid, and he shall set his throne over them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/13-3.htm">Isaiah 13:3</a> I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/44-28.htm">Isaiah 44:28</a> Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/45-1.htm">Isaiah 45:1</a> Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/29-18.htm">Ezekiel 29:18-20</a> Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it. . . . </p><p class="hdg">against.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/25-17.htm">Jeremiah 25:17-26</a> And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/27-3.htm">Jeremiah 27:3-8</a> And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/26-7.htm">Ezekiel 26:7</a> For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and companies, and much people.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/29-19.htm">Ezekiel 29:19</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/30-10.htm">Ezekiel 30:10,11</a> Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon. . . . </p><p class="hdg">an astonishment.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/18-16.htm">Jeremiah 18:16</a> That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/24-9.htm">Jeremiah 24:9</a> And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/9-7.htm">1 Kings 9:7,8</a> I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/25.htm">The Seventy-Year Captivity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words: <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl">Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.</span><span class="reftext">10</span>And I will take away 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 mill and the light of the lamp.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-37.htm">Deuteronomy 28:37</a></span><br />And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/29-8.htm">2 Chronicles 29:8</a></span><br />Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/13-3.htm">Isaiah 13:3</a></span><br />I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/1-15.htm">Jeremiah 1:15</a></span><br />For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-7.htm">Jeremiah 4:7</a></span><br />The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath roused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy land desolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/10-22.htm">Jeremiah 10:22</a></span><br />Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/18-16.htm">Jeremiah 18:16</a></span><br />That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/20-4.htm">Jeremiah 20:4</a></span><br />For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver thee up to fear, thee and all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thy eyes shall see it, and I will give all Juda into the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall carry them away to Babylon, and shall strike them with the sword.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/25-8.htm">Jeremiah 25:8</a></span><br />Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/25-18.htm">Jeremiah 25:18</a></span><br />To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/25-26.htm">Jeremiah 25:26</a></span><br />And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/27-6.htm">Jeremiah 27:6</a></span><br />And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/29-18.htm">Jeremiah 29:18</a></span><br />And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and with the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them out:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/36-2.htm">Jeremiah 36:2</a></span><br />Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/36-29.htm">Jeremiah 36:29</a></span><br />And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall lay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/12-20.htm">Ezekiel 12:20</a></span><br />And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/29-18.htm">Ezekiel 29:18</a></span><br />Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/29-20.htm">Ezekiel 29:20</a></span><br />And for the service that he hath done me against it: I have given him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured for me, saith the Lord God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/36-5.htm">Ezekiel 36:5</a></span><br />Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../daniel/5-18.htm">Daniel 5:18</a></span><br />O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm">Astonishment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-4.htm">Desolations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-1.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-25.htm">Families</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm">Hissing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-2.htm">Inhabitants</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-8.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Nebuchadnezzar</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Nebuchadrezzar</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-8.htm">North</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-40.htm">Perpetual</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-4.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-14.htm">Thereof</a> 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