Jeremiah 25

1The word that came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah—that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

2which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the dwellers of Jerusalem, saying,

3From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this day—these three and twenty years—the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened.

4Yahweh sent all his servants the prophets to you, rising early and sending them, but you did not listen or incline your ear to hear.

5saying, "Return please, each from his evil path and from the evil of your deeds, and remain on the land that Yahweh gave you and your fathers forever, even forever."

6Do not go after other gods to serve them and bow down to them, and do not anger me with the work of your hands, and I will not harm you.

7Yet you have not listened to me, declares Yahweh, so as to provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your own harm.

8Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: because you have not listened to my words.

9Look, I will send and take all the families of the north, declares Yahweh, and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations, devoting them to destruction and setting them as a desolation, a hissing, and everlasting ruins.

10I will take from them the sound of rejoicing, the sound of gladness, the sound of the bridegroom, the sound of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

11This entire land will become a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12When seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; I will make it desolations forever.

13I will bring against that land all my words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

14For many nations and great kings—even they—will enslave them also, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.

15For thus says Yahweh, God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

16They will drink and stagger and rave because of the sword that I send among them.

17I took the cup from Yahweh's hand and made all the nations drink, those to whom Yahweh had sent me.

18Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, a waste, a hissing, and a curse, as they are today.

19Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people.

20and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod.

21Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;

22and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the island beyond the sea,

23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all with shorn temples.

24and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the Arabs dwelling in the wilderness,

25and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media

26And all the kings of the north, the nearby and the distant, each to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the earth that are across the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach will drink after them.

27Tell them: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall, and do not rise because of the sword that I am sending among you.

28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts: You shall surely drink.

29Look, I begin to unleash disaster on the city that bears my name; will you then go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I call a sword against all who dwell on earth, declares Yahweh of hosts.

30And you, prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: Yahweh will roar from the heights and sound his voice from his holy dwelling; he will roar fiercely over his pasture, shouting like grape-treaders against all who live on earth.

31A tumult reaches to the ends of the earth, for Yahweh has a dispute with the nations; he will judge all flesh—the wicked he delivers to the sword, says Yahweh.

32Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Look, disaster is spreading from nation to nation, and a great tempest will arise from the ends of the earth.

33Those slain by Yahweh will cover the earth from end to end on that day; they will not be mourned, nor gathered, nor buried, but will become dung spread over the surface of the ground.

34Howl, shepherds, and cry out; wallow, you noble ones of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are full, and you will fall like a precious vessel.

35Flight will perish from the shepherds, and deliverance from the nobles of the flock.

36A sound of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the nobles of the flock! For Yahweh is destroying their pasture.

37The peaceful pastures fall silent because of the heat of Yahweh's anger.

38He has forsaken his lair like a lion, because their land has become a desolate waste due to the fury of oppression and the fury of his anger.