Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 025
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that was
the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
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which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people of
Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying
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From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of
Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of HaShem hath
come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, speaking betimes and often; but ye
have not hearkened
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And HaShem hath sent unto you all His servants the
prophets, sending them betimes and often--but ye have not hearkened, nor
inclined your ear to hear-
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saying: 'Return ye now every one from his evil way, and
from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that HaShem hath given unto
you and to your fathers, for ever and ever
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and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship
them, and provoke Me not with the work of your hands, and I will do you no
hurt.
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Yet ye have not hearkened unto Me, saith HaShem; that ye
might provoke Me with the work of your hands to your own hurt
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Therefore thus saith HaShem of hosts: Because ye have not
heard My words
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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith HaShem, 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
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Moreover I will cause to cease from among 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
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And this whole land shall be a desolation, and a waste;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years
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And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith
HaShem, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it
perpetual desolations
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And 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
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For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of
them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to
the work of their own hands
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For thus saith HaShem, the G-d of Israel, unto me: Take
this cup of the wine of fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I
send thee, to drink it
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And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like
madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them.-
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Then took I the cup of HaShem'S hand, and made all the
nations to drink, unto whom HaShem had sent me
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Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof,
and the princes thereof, to make them an appalment, an astonishment, a hissing,
and a curse; as it is this day
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Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,
and all his people
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and all the mingled people; and all the kings of the land
of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza,
and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod
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Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon
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and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and
the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea
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Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of
their hair polled
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and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the wilderness
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and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and
all the kings of the Medes
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and 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
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And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith HaShem of hosts,
the G-d 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
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And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy
hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them: Thus saith HaShem of hosts: Ye
shall surely drink
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For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city whereupon My
name is called, 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 HaShem
of hosts
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Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and
say unto them: HaShem doth roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy
habitation; He doth mightily roar because of His fold; He giveth a shout, as
they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth
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A noise is come even to the end of the earth; for HaShem
hath a controversy with the nations, He doth plead with all flesh; as for the
wicked, He hath given them to the sword, saith HaShem
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Thus saith HaShem of hosts: Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost
parts of the earth
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And the slain of HaShem 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
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Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the
dust, ye leaders of the flock; for the days of your slaughter are fully come,
and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a precious vessel
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And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
leaders of the flock to escape
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Hark! the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the
leaders of the flock! For HaShem despoileth their pasture
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And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of
the fierce anger of HaShem
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He hath forsaken His covert, as the lion; for their land
is become a waste because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because
of His fierce anger
Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 025
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