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Jeremiah 25
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1THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS concerning all the people of Juda in the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josias, king of Juda;
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),
2which he spoke to all the people of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
2which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
3In the thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos, king of Juda, even until this day for three and twentyyears, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,
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.
4and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you⌃ listened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,
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),
5Turn you⌃ every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and you⌃ shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and for ever.
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.
6Go you⌃ not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that you⌃ provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.
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.”
7But you⌃ listened not to me.
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.”
8Therefore thus says the Lord; Since you⌃ believed not my words,
8Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words,
9beholdI [will] send and take a family from the north,and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
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.
10And I will destroy from [among] them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.
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.
11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
11This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.
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.
13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it, [even] all things that are written in this book.
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.
34THE PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAS AGAINST THE NATIONS OF AeLAM.
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.
35Thus says the Lord, The bow of Aelam is broken, [even] the chief of their power.
35The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.
36And I will bring upon Aelam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation [to] which they shall not come—[even] the outcasts of Aelam.
36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for Yahweh destroys their pasture.
37And I will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to my great anger; and I will send forth my sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them.
37The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
38And I will set my throne in Aelam, and will send forth thence king and rulers.
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.