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Prophecy
of the Captivity |
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| Jeremiah 25:1 |
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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 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), |
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| Jeremiah 25:2 |
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which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the
people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, |
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| Jeremiah 25:3 |
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"From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son
of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of
the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have
not listened. |
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| Jeremiah 25:4 |
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"And the LORD has sent to you all His servants
the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear
to hear, |
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| Jeremiah 25:5 |
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saying, 'Turn now everyone from his evil way
and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the LORD has given
to you and your forefathers forever and ever; |
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| Jeremiah 25:6 |
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and do not go after other gods to serve them
and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands,
and I will do you no harm.' |
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| Jeremiah 25:7 |
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"Yet you have not listened to Me," declares
the LORD, "in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands
to your own harm. |
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| Jeremiah 25:8 |
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"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Because
you have not obeyed My words, |
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| Jeremiah 25:9 |
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behold, I will send and take all the families
of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants
and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and
make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. |
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| Jeremiah 25:10 |
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'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of
joy 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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| Jeremiah 25:11 |
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'This whole land will be a desolation and a
horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. |
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Babylon Will Be Judged |
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| Jeremiah 25:12 |
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'Then it will be when seventy years are completed
I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their
iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
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| Jeremiah 25:13 |
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'I will bring upon that land all My words which
I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah
has prophesied against all the nations. |
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| Jeremiah 25:14 |
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'(For many nations and great kings will make
slaves of them, even them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds
and according to the work of their hands.)'" |
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| Jeremiah 25:15 |
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For thus the LORD, the God of Israel, says 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. |
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| Jeremiah 25:16 |
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"They will drink and stagger and go mad because
of the sword that I will send among them." |
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| Jeremiah 25:17 |
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Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and
made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it: |
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| Jeremiah 25:18 |
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Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings
and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is
this day; |
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| Jeremiah 25:19 |
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Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes
and all his people; |
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| Jeremiah 25:20 |
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and all the foreign people, all the kings of
the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza,
Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod); |
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| Jeremiah 25:21 |
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Edom, Moab and the sons of Ammon; |
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| Jeremiah 25:22 |
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and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of
Sidon and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea; |
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| Jeremiah 25:23 |
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and Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who cut the corners
of their hair; |
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| Jeremiah 25:24 |
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and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings
of the foreign people who dwell in the desert; |
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| Jeremiah 25:25 |
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and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of
Elam and all the kings of Media; |
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| Jeremiah 25:26 |
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and all the kings of the north, near and far,
one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of
the ground, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. |
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| Jeremiah 25:27 |
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"You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel, "Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because
of the sword which I will send among you."' |
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| Jeremiah 25:28 |
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"And it will be, if they refuse to take the
cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of
hosts: "You shall surely drink! |
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| Jeremiah 25:29 |
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"For behold, I am beginning to work calamity
in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from
punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against
all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the LORD of hosts.' |
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| Jeremiah 25:30 |
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"Therefore you shall prophesy against them all
these words, and you shall say to them, 'The LORD will roar from on high And utter
His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold. He
will shout like those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the
earth. |
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| Jeremiah 25:31 |
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'A clamor has come to the end of the earth,
Because the LORD has a controversy with the nations. He is entering into judgment
with all flesh; As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,' declares the
LORD." |
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| Jeremiah 25:32 |
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Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, evil is
going forth From nation to nation, And a great storm is being stirred up From
the remotest parts of the earth. |
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| Jeremiah 25:33 |
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"Those slain by the LORD on that day will be
from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or
buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground. |
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| Jeremiah 25:34 |
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"Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And wallow in
ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions
have come, And you will fall like a choice vessel. |
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| Jeremiah 25:35 |
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"Flight will perish from the shepherds, And
escape from the masters of the flock. |
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| Jeremiah 25:36 |
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"Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,
And the wailing of the masters of the flock! For the LORD is destroying their
pasture, |
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| Jeremiah 25:37 |
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"And the peaceful folds are made silent Because
of the fierce anger of the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 25:38 |
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"He has left His hiding place like the lion;
For their land has become a horror Because of the fierceness of the oppressing
sword And because of His fierce anger." |
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