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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 spake unto 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 unto this day, that is the three and twen­ti­eth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spo­ken unto you, ris­ing ear­ly and speak­ing; but ye have not hear­kened. 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his ser­vants the prophets, ris­ing ear­ly and send­ing them; but ye have not hear­kened, nor in­clined your ear to hear. 5 They said, Turn ye again now ev­ery one from his evil way, and from the evil of your do­ings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath giv­en unto 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 ye have not hear­kened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might pro­voke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. 8 There­fore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Be­cause ye have not heard my words, 9 Be­hold, I will send and take all the fam­i­lies of the north, saith the LORD, and 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 will ut­ter­ly de­stroy them, and make them an as­ton­ish­ment, and an 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 shall be a des­o­la­tion, and an as­ton­ish­ment; and these na­tions shall serve the king of Baby­lon sev­en­ty years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when sev­en­ty years are ac­com­plished, that I will pun­ish the king of Baby­lon, and that na­tion, saith the LORD, 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 hath proph­e­sied against all the na­tions. 14 For many na­tions and great kings shall 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 saith the LORD God of Is­rael unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the na­tions, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall 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'S hand, and made all the na­tions to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 18 ­To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Ju­dah, and the kings there­of, and the princes there­of, to make them a des­o­la­tion, an as­ton­ish­ment, an 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 shall drink af­ter them. 27 There­fore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Drink ye, and be drunk­en, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, be­cause of the sword which I will send among you. 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall cer­tain­ly drink. 29 For, lo, I be­gin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, 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 the LORD of hosts. 30 There­fore proph­esy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and ut­ter his voice from his holy habi­ta­tion; he shall might­i­ly roar upon his habi­ta­tion; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the in­hab­i­tants of the earth. 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a con­tro­ver­sy with the na­tions, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Be­hold, evil shall go forth from na­tion to na­tion, and a great whirl­wind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD 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 ground. 34 Howl, ye shep­herds, and cry; and wal­low your­selves in the ashes, ye prin­ci­pal of the flock: for the days of your slaugh­ter and of your dis­per­sions are ac­com­plished; and ye shall fall like a pleas­ant ves­sel. 35 And the shep­herds shall have no way to flee, nor the prin­ci­pal of the flock to es­cape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shep­herds, and an howl­ing of the prin­ci­pal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pas­ture. 37 And the peace­able habi­ta­tions are cut down be­cause of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He hath for­sak­en his covert, as the li­on: for their land is des­o­late be­cause of the fierce­ness of the op­pres­sor, and be­cause of his fierce anger.