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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 25
The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people
of Juda, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias
king of Juda, (the same is the first year of Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon,)
Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all the people of
Juda, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon
king of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth
year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have
spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and
you have not hearkened.
And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets,
rising early, and sending, and you have not hearkened,
nor inclined your ears to hear.
When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way,
and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in
the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your
fathers for ever and ever.
And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore
them: nor provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands,
and I will not afflict you.
And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you
might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands,
to your own hurt.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you
have not heard my words:
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.
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.
And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment:
and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.
And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will
punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the
Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans:
and I will make it perpetual desolations.
And I will bring upon the land all my words, that I
have spoken against it, all that is written in this
book, all that Jeremias hath prophesied against all
nations:
For they have served them, whereas they were many nations,
and great kings: and I will repay them according to
their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou
shalt make all nations to drink thereof, unto which
I shall send thee.
And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because
of the sword, which I shall send among them.
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:
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.
Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
princes, and all his people,
And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis,
and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and
Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.
And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.
And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon:
and the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond
the sea.
And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their
hair cut round.
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
west, that dwell in the desert.
And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of Medes:
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.
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts
the God of Israel: Dring ye, and be drunken, and vomit:
and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which
I shall send among you.
And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink,
thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
Drinking you shall drink:
For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein
my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent
and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will
call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
saith the Lord of hosts.
And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and
thou shalt say to them: The Lord shall roar from on
high, and shall utter his voice from his holy habitation:
roaring he shall roar upon the place of his beauty:
the shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall
be given out against all the inhabitants of the earth.
The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for
the Lord entereth into judgement with the nations: he
entereth into judgement with all flesh; the wicked I
have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth
from nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go
forth from the ends of the earth.
And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from
one end of the earth even to the other end thereof:
they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered
up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon the face
of the earth.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves
with ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of
your slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished,
and you shall fall like precious vessels.
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
leaders of the flock to save themselves.
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of
the principal of the flock: because the Lord hath watsed
their pastures.
And the fields of peace have been silent, because of
the fierce anger of the Lord.
He has forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land
is laid waste because of the wrath of the dove, and
because of the fierce anger of the Lord. |
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