Jeremiah 25 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Prophecy of the Captivity

25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the ^(A)fourth year of ^(B)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the ^(C)first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), ² the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the ^(D)people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ³ “From the ^(E)thirteenth year of ^(F)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, ^[a]these ^(G)twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you ^(H)again and again, but you have not listened. ⁴ And the Lord has sent to you all His ^(I)servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, ⁵ saying, ‘^(J)Turn now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers ^(K)forever and ever; ⁶ and ^(L)do not follow other gods to ^[b]serve them and to ^[c]worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will do you no harm.’ ⁷ Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order to ^(M)provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

⁸ “Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, ⁹ behold, I will ^(N)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(O)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^[d]completely destroy them and ^(P)make them an object of horror and ^[e]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins. ¹⁰ Moreover, I will ^(Q)eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the ^(R)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ^{11 (S)}This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for ^(T)seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

¹² ‘Then it will be ^(U)when seventy years are completed I will ^(V)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(W)I will make it an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in ^(X)this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ^(Y)all the nations. ¹⁴ (^[f]For ^(Z)many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^(AA)repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”

¹⁵ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this ^(AB)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it. ¹⁶ Then they will ^(AC)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and ^(AD)gave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it: ¹⁸ To ^(AE)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^[g]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹ To ^(AF)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; ²⁰ and to all the ^(AG)foreign ^[h]people, all the kings of the ^(AH)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(AI)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(AJ)Ashdod); ²¹ To ^(AK)Edom, ^(AL)Moab, and the sons of ^(AM)Ammon; ²² and to all the kings of ^(AN)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^(AO)the coastlands which are beyond the sea; ²³ and to ^(AP)Dedan, Tema, ^(AQ)Buz, and all who ^(AR)trim the corners of their hair; ²⁴ and to all the kings of ^(AS)Arabia and all the kings of the ^(AT)foreign ^[i]people who live in the desert; ²⁵ and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(AU)Elam, and all the kings of ^(AV)Media; ²⁶ and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^(AW)all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of ^[j](AX)Sheshach shall drink it after them.

²⁷ “And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “^(AY)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the ^(AZ)sword which I am sending among you.”’ ²⁸ And if they ^(BA)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “^(BB)You shall certainly drink! ²⁹ For behold, I am ^(BC)beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is ^(BD)called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^(BE)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of armies.’

³⁰ “Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,

‘The ^(BF)Lord will ^(BG)roar from on high
And raise His voice from His holy dwelling;
He will roar forcefully against His ^[k]fold.
He will shout like those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
³¹ A clamor has come to the end of the earth,
Because the Lord has ^(BH)a controversy with the nations.
He is entering into ^(BI)judgment with ^[l]humanity;
As for the wicked, He has turned them over to the sword,’ declares the Lord.”

³² This is what the Lord of armies says:
“Behold, evil is going out
From ^(BJ)nation to nation,
And a great ^(BK)storm is being stirred up
From the remotest parts of the earth.

³³ “Those ^(BL)put to death by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the ^[m]other. They will ^(BM)not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like ^(BN)dung on the face of the ground.

³⁴ Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;
^(BO)Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock;
For the days of your ^(BP)slaughter and your dispersions ^[n]have come,
And you will fall like a precious vessel.
^{35 [o]}There will be ^(BQ)no sanctuary for the shepherds,
Nor escape for the masters of the flock.
³⁶ 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,
³⁷ And the peaceful ^(BR)grazing places are devastated
Because of the ^(BS)fierce anger of the Lord.
³⁸ He has left His hiding place ^(BT)like the lion;
For their land has become a horror
Because of the fierceness of the ^[p]oppressing sword
And because of His fierce anger.”

Footnotes

1. Jeremiah 25:3 Lit this
2. Jeremiah 25:6 Or worship
3. Jeremiah 25:6 Or bow down to
4. Jeremiah 25:9 Or put them under the ban
5. Jeremiah 25:9 Or whistling
6. Jeremiah 25:14 Or For they have served many nations and great kings
7. Jeremiah 25:18 Or whistling
8. Jeremiah 25:20 Or mercenaries
9. Jeremiah 25:24 Or mercenaries
10. Jeremiah 25:26 Cryptic name for Babylon
11. Jeremiah 25:30 Or pasture; i.e., a ref to His people
12. Jeremiah 25:31 Lit all flesh
13. Jeremiah 25:33 Lit other end of the earth
14. Jeremiah 25:34 Lit are full
15. Jeremiah 25:35 Lit Sanctuary will perish from
16. Jeremiah 25:38 Or oppressor

Cross references

1. Jeremiah 25:1 : Jer 36:1; 46:2
2. Jeremiah 25:1 : 2 Kin 24:1, 2; 2 Chr 36:4-6; Dan 1:1, 2
3. Jeremiah 25:1 : Jer 32:1
4. Jeremiah 25:2 : Jer 18:11
5. Jeremiah 25:3 : Jer 1:2
6. Jeremiah 25:3 : 2 Chr 34:1-3, 8
7. Jeremiah 25:3 : Jer 36:2
8. Jeremiah 25:3 : Jer 7:25; 11:7; 26:5
9. Jeremiah 25:4 : 2 Chr 36:15; Jer 26:5
10. Jeremiah 25:5 : 2 Kin 17:13; Is 55:6, 7; Jer 4:1; 35:15; Ezek 18:30; Jon 3:8-10
11. Jeremiah 25:5 : Gen 17:8; Jer 7:7; 17:25
12. Jeremiah 25:6 : Deut 6:14; 8:19; 2 Kin 17:35; Jer 35:15
13. Jeremiah 25:7 : 2 Kin 17:17; 21:15; Jer 7:19; 32:30-33
14. Jeremiah 25:9 : Jer 1:15; 6:22, 23
15. Jeremiah 25:9 : Is 13:3; Jer 27:6; 43:10
16. Jeremiah 25:9 : 1 Kin 9:7, 8; Jer 18:16; 25:18
17. Jeremiah 25:10 : Is 24:8-11; Jer 7:34; 16:9; Ezek 26:13; Rev 18:23
18. Jeremiah 25:10 : Eccl 12:4; Is 47:2
19. Jeremiah 25:11 : Jer 4:27; 12:11, 12
20. Jeremiah 25:11 : 2 Chr 36:21; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2; Zech 7:5
21. Jeremiah 25:12 : Ezra 1:1; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2
22. Jeremiah 25:12 : Is 13:14; Jer ch 50, 51
23. Jeremiah 25:12 : Is 13:19
24. Jeremiah 25:13 : Jer 36:4, 29, 32
25. Jeremiah 25:13 : Jer 1:5, 10; 36:2
26. Jeremiah 25:14 : Jer 27:7; 50:9, 41; 51:27, 28
27. Jeremiah 25:14 : Jer 51:6, 24, 56
28. Jeremiah 25:15 : Job 21:20; Ps 75:8; Is 51:17, 22; Jer 51:7
29. Jeremiah 25:16 : Nah 3:11
30. Jeremiah 25:17 : Jer 1:10; 25:28
31. Jeremiah 25:18 : Ps 60:3; Is 51:17
32. Jeremiah 25:19 : Jer 46:2-28; Nah 3:8-10
33. Jeremiah 25:20 : Jer 25:24; 50:37; Ezek 30:5
34. Jeremiah 25:20 : Job 1:1; Lam 4:21
35. Jeremiah 25:20 : Jer 47:1-7
36. Jeremiah 25:20 : Is 20:1
37. Jeremiah 25:21 : Ps 137:7; Jer 49:7-22
38. Jeremiah 25:21 : Jer 48:1-47; Amos 2:1-3
39. Jeremiah 25:21 : Jer 49:1-6; Amos 1:13-15
40. Jeremiah 25:22 : Jer 47:4; Zech 9:2-4
41. Jeremiah 25:22 : Jer 31:10
42. Jeremiah 25:23 : Is 21:13; Jer 49:7, 8
43. Jeremiah 25:23 : Gen 22:21
44. Jeremiah 25:23 : Jer 9:26; 49:32
45. Jeremiah 25:24 : 2 Chr 9:14
46. Jeremiah 25:24 : Jer 25:20; 50:37; Ezek 30:5
47. Jeremiah 25:25 : Gen 10:22; Is 11:11; Jer 49:34
48. Jeremiah 25:25 : Is 13:17; Jer 51:11, 28
49. Jeremiah 25:26 : Jer 25:9; 50:9
50. Jeremiah 25:26 : Jer 51:41
51. Jeremiah 25:27 : Jer 25:16; Hab 2:16
52. Jeremiah 25:27 : Ezek 21:4, 5
53. Jeremiah 25:28 : Job 34:33
54. Jeremiah 25:28 : Jer 49:12
55. Jeremiah 25:29 : Prov 11:31; Is 10:12; Jer 13:13; Ezek 9:6; 1 Pet 4:17
56. Jeremiah 25:29 : 1 Kin 8:43
57. Jeremiah 25:29 : Ezek 38:21
58. Jeremiah 25:30 : Is 42:13; Jer 25:38
59. Jeremiah 25:30 : Joel 2:11; 3:16; Amos 1:2
60. Jeremiah 25:31 : Hos 4:1; Mic 6:2
61. Jeremiah 25:31 : Is 66:16; Ezek 20:35, 36; Joel 3:2
62. Jeremiah 25:32 : 2 Chr 15:6; Is 34:2
63. Jeremiah 25:32 : Is 30:30; Jer 23:19
64. Jeremiah 25:33 : Is 34:2, 3; 66:16
65. Jeremiah 25:33 : Ps 79:3; Jer 16:4; Ezek 39:4, 17
66. Jeremiah 25:33 : Is 5:25
67. Jeremiah 25:34 : Jer 6:26; Ezek 27:30
68. Jeremiah 25:34 : Is 34:6, 7; Jer 50:27
69. Jeremiah 25:35 : Job 11:20; Jer 11:11; Amos 2:14
70. Jeremiah 25:37 : Is 27:10, 11; Jer 5:17; 13:20
71. Jeremiah 25:37 : Ps 97:1-3; Is 66:15; Heb 12:29
72. Jeremiah 25:38 : Jer 4:7; 5:6; Hos 5:14; 13:7, 8