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1 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;
2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD [Yahweh] has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened.
4 And the LORD [Yahweh] has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5 They said, Turn you again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD [Yahweh] has given to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7 Yet you have not listened to me, says the LORD [Yahweh]; that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8 Therefore thus says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts; Because you have not heard my words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD [Yahweh], and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10 Moreover I will take 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 millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 And this whole land will be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it will come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD [Yahweh], for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
13 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 has prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings will serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
15 For thus says the LORD [Yahweh] God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
16 And they will drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the LORD [Yahweh]'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the LORD [Yahweh] had sent me:
18 [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20 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 Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,
23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost corners,
24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
26 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 will drink after them.
27 Therefore you will say to them, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink you, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then will you say to them, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts; You will certainly drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts.
30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say to them, The LORD [Yahweh] will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar upon his habitation; he will give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise will come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD [Yahweh] has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, says the LORD [Yahweh].
32 Thus says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, Behold, evil will go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind will be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33 And the slain of the LORD [Yahweh] will be at that day from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth: they will not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they will be dung upon the ground.
34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], you principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you will fall like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, [will be heard]: for the LORD [Yahweh] has spoiled their pasture.
37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD [Yahweh].
38 He has forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.