Jeremiah 25 (NET)

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Jeremiah 25:1¹In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah. (That was the same as the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 36:1 2 Kgs 24:1-2 Dan 1:1 Jer 46:2

Jeremiah 25:2²So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 18:11 Jer 19:14-15 Jer 26:2 Jer 35:13 Jer 38:1-2 Mark 7:14-15 Ps 49:1-2

Jeremiah 25:3³“For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah until now, the Lord’ s messages have come to me and I have told them to you over and over again. But you would not listen.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 1:2 Jer 11:7 Jer 26:5 Jer 7:13 2 Chr 34:3 2 Chr 34:8 Jer 29:19 2 Tim 4:2 1 Kgs 22:3 Exod 8:20

Jeremiah 25:4⁴Over and over again the Lord has sent his servants the prophets to you. But you have not listened or paid attention.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 25:3 Jer 26:5 2 Chr 36:15-16 Acts 7:51-52 Heb 12:25 Jer 11:7-10 Jer 13:10-11 Jer 16:12 Jer 17:23 Jer 18:12

Jeremiah 25:5⁵He said through them, ‘Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:7 Gen 17:8 Isa 55:6-7 Jer 17:25 Ezek 18:30 Jer 18:11 Jer 35:15 Jonah 3:8-10 Zech 1:4-5 2 Kgs 17:13-14

Jeremiah 25:6⁶Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 8:19 1 Kgs 14:22 2 Kgs 17:35 Deut 6:14 Jer 35:15 Jer 7:6 1 Kgs 11:4-10 Deut 13:2 Deut 28:14 Exod 20:23

Jeremiah 25:7⁷So, now the Lord says, ‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:15 Prov 8:36 2 Kgs 17:17 Deut 32:21 Jer 32:30-33 Jer 7:18-19 Neh 9:26

Jeremiah 25:8⁸“Therefore, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘You have not listened to what I said.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 25:9⁹So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy the land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 13:3 Jer 1:15 Jer 18:16 Ezek 29:18-20 Hab 1:6-10 Jer 43:10 Jer 6:22-26 1 Kgs 9:7-8 Isa 39:7 Isa 44:28-45:1

Jeremiah 25:10¹⁰I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:34 Ezek 26:13 Jer 16:9 Rev 18:22-23 Jer 33:10-11 Eccl 12:2-4 Esth 3:13 Esth 7:4 Esth 8:11 Hos 2:11

Jeremiah 25:11¹¹This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 9:2 Zech 1:12 2 Chr 36:21-22 Jer 25:12 Zech 7:5 Isa 23:15-17 Jer 12:11-12 Jer 4:27

Jeremiah 25:12¹²“‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 9:2 Isa 13:19 Jer 29:10 Isa 14:23 Jer 50:1-46 Jer 51:62-64 2 Kgs 24:1 Dan 5:1-31 Deut 32:35-42 Ezek 35:9

Jeremiah 25:13¹³I will bring on that land everything that I said I would. I will bring on it everything that is written in this book. I will bring on it everything that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 1:10 Jer 1:5 Dan 5:28 Dan 5:31 Rev 10:11

Jeremiah 25:14¹⁴For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too. I will repay them for all they have done.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:6 Jer 27:7 Jer 50:9 Jer 50:41 Isa 14:2 Isa 45:1-3 Isa 66:6 Dan 5:28 Hab 2:8-16 Jer 50:29-34

Jeremiah 25:15¹⁵So the Lord, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision: “Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 75:8 Isa 51:17 Job 21:20 Rev 14:10 Isa 51:22 Jer 51:7 Jer 13:12-14 Ps 11:6 Rev 14:19

Jeremiah 25:16¹⁶When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:7 Nah 3:11 Ezek 23:32-34 Jer 25:27 Jer 51:39 Lam 4:21 Rev 14:10 Rev 16:9-11 Rev 18:3 Lam 3:15

Jeremiah 25:17¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord ’s hand. I made all the nations to whom he sent me drink the wine of his wrath.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 1:10 Jer 25:28 Ezek 43:3 Jer 27:3 Jer 46:1-28

Jeremiah 25:18¹⁸I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 24:9 Jer 44:22 Ps 60:3 1 Kgs 8:24 1 Pet 4:17 2 Kgs 22:19 Amos 2:5 Amos 3:2 Dan 9:12 Ezek 9:5-8

Jeremiah 25:19¹⁹I made all these other people drink it: Pharaoh, king of Egypt; his attendants, his officials, his people,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:13-26 Jer 46:2 Nah 3:8-10 Ezek 29:1-21 Jer 43:9-11

Jeremiah 25:20²⁰the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines, the people of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, the people who had been left alive from Ashdod;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 1:1 Ezek 30:5 Isa 20:1 Jer 50:37 Lam 4:21 Exod 12:38 Jer 25:24 Jer 47:1-7 1 Chr 1:17 1 Sam 6:17

Jeremiah 25:21²¹all the people of Edom, Moab, Ammon;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 48:1-49:22 Jer 9:26 Ps 137:7 Amos 1:11-2:3 Ezek 25:2-14 Ezek 32:29 Ezek 35:1-15 Isa 15:1-9 Isa 25:10 Isa 34:1-17

Jeremiah 25:22²²all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 47:4 Amos 1:3-5 Amos 1:9-10 Ezek 26:1-21 Ezek 28:22-23 Ezek 29:18 Ezek 32:30 Jer 27:3 Jer 31:10 Jer 49:23-27

Jeremiah 25:23²³the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:26 Jer 49:32 Jer 49:8 Gen 22:21 Job 6:19 1 Chr 1:30 Ezek 25:13 Ezek 27:20 Gen 10:7 Gen 25:15

Jeremiah 25:24²⁴all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 9:14 Jer 25:20 Ezek 30:5 Jer 50:37 1 Kgs 10:15 Ezek 27:21 Gen 25:12-16 Gen 25:2-4 Gen 37:25-28 Isa 21:13

Jeremiah 25:25²⁵all the kings of Zimri; all the kings of Elam; all the kings of Media;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 10:22 Isa 11:11 Isa 13:17 Jer 49:34-39 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:28 Dan 5:28 Dan 8:2 Ezek 32:24 Gen 14:1

Jeremiah 25:26²⁶all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms that are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord ’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:41 Jer 25:9 Dan 5:1-31 Ezek 32:30 Hab 2:16 Isa 13:1-14 Isa 47:1-15 Jer 25:12 Jer 50:1-46 Rev 18:1-24

Jeremiah 25:27²⁷Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:16 Jer 25:16 Ezek 21:4-5 Isa 51:21 Lam 4:21 Deut 32:42 Ezek 24:21-25 Isa 63:6 Jer 12:12 Jer 46:10

Jeremiah 25:28²⁸If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘You most certainly must drink it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 34:33 Acts 4:28 Dan 4:35 Eph 1:11 Isa 14:24-27 Isa 46:10-11 Jer 4:28 Jer 49:12 Jer 51:29

Jeremiah 25:29²⁹For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished. For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, affirm it!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:17 Ezek 38:21 Prov 11:31 1 Kgs 8:43 Ezek 9:6 Jer 49:12 Obad 1:16 Dan 9:18-19 Ezek 14:17 Ezek 14:21

Jeremiah 25:30³⁰“Then, Jeremiah, make the following prophecy against them: ‘Like a lion about to attack, the Lord will roar from the heights of heaven; from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly. He will roar mightily against his land. He will shout in triumph, like those stomping juice from the grapes, against all those who live on the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 1:2 Isa 42:13 Joel 3:16 Isa 16:9 Ps 78:65 1 Kgs 9:3 2 Chr 30:27 Amos 3:8 Deut 26:15 Hos 13:7-8

Jeremiah 25:31³¹The sounds of battle will resound to the ends of the earth. For the Lord will bring charges against the nations. He will pass judgment on all humankind and will hand the wicked over to be killed in war.’ The Lord so affirms it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 4:1 Joel 3:2 Isa 66:16 Mic 6:2 Ezek 20:35-36 Hos 12:2 Isa 34:8 Ezek 38:22 Jer 45:5

Jeremiah 25:32³²The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘Disaster will soon come on one nation after another. A mighty storm of military destruction is rising up from the distant parts of the earth.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 34:2 Jer 23:19 2 Chr 15:6 Isa 30:30 Jer 30:23 Isa 5:28 Isa 66:18 Luke 21:10 Luke 21:25 Zeph 3:8

Jeremiah 25:33³³Those who have been killed by the Lord at that time will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried. Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 66:16 Jer 8:2 Ps 79:3 Isa 5:25 Jer 16:4-7 2 Kgs 9:37 Ezek 39:4-20 Isa 34:2-8 Jer 13:12-14 Jer 25:18-26

Jeremiah 25:34³⁴Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 6:26 2 Chr 36:10 Amos 5:11 Dan 11:8 Ezek 27:30-31 Ezek 34:16-17 Ezek 34:20 Isa 10:12 Isa 2:16 Isa 30:14

Jeremiah 25:35³⁵The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 11:20 Amos 2:14 Amos 9:1-3 Dan 5:30 Ezek 17:15 Ezek 17:18 Isa 2:12-22 Isa 24:21-23 Jer 32:4 Jer 34:3

Jeremiah 25:36³⁶Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders. Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks. They are wailing because the Lord is about to destroy their lands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:8 Jer 25:34

Jeremiah 25:37³⁷Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 27:10-11 Isa 32:14

Jeremiah 25:38³⁸The Lord is like a lion who has left his lair. So their lands will certainly be laid waste by the warfare of the oppressive nation and by the fierce anger of the Lord.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:7 Hos 13:7-8 Hos 5:14 Jer 5:6 Amos 8:8 Hos 11:10 Jer 49:19 Jer 50:44 Ps 76:2 Zech 2:3