Chapter 25
Jeremiah · Prophet Jeremiah
¹ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah; ² which he spoke to all the people of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ³ In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking, ⁴ and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears); saying, ⁵ Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and forever. ⁶ Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt. ⁷ But ye hearkened not to me.
Jer 25:1-7
⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since ye believed not my words, ⁹ behold, I [will] send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach. ¹⁰ And I will destroy from [among] them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle. ¹¹ And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
Jer 25:8-11
¹² And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation. ¹³ And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it, [even] all things that are written in this book.
Jer 25:12-13
¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord, The bow of Elam is broken, [even] the chief of their power. ¹⁶ And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation [to] which they shall not come—[even] the outcasts of Elam. ¹⁷ And I will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to my great anger; and I will send forth my sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them. ¹⁸ And I will set my throne in Elam, and will send forth thence king and rulers. ¹⁹ But it shall come to pass at the end of days, that I will turn the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.
Jer 25:15-19