1This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.[ † ]Jeremiah 36:12 Kings 24:1-22 Chronicles 36:4-6Daniel 1:1-2 2So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:
3“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.[ † ]Jeremiah 1:2Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 11:7-8, 10 4And the Lord has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.[ † ]Jeremiah 7:13-25
5The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.[ † ]2 Kings 17:13Isaiah 55:6-7Jeremiah 18:11Ezekiel 18:30Jonah 3:8-10 6Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
7‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:21Jeremiah 7:19Jeremiah 32:30
8Therefore this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, 9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the Lord, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.[ † ]Jeremiah 1:15Isaiah 45:1Jeremiah 27:6Jeremiah 18:16
10Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.[ † ]Isaiah 24:7-11Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 16:9Ezekiel 26:13Hosea 2:11Revelation 18:23Ecclesiastes 12:4Isaiah 47:2 11And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:21Jeremiah 29:10Daniel 9:2Zechariah 7:5
12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the Lord, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:21-22Ezra 1:1Jeremiah 29:10Daniel 9:2Isaiah 13:20Jeremiah 50:3
13I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”[ † ]Jeremiah 50:9Jeremiah 51:27-28Jeremiah 51:27Jeremiah 27:7Jeremiah 50:29Jeremiah 51:6-24
15This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.[ † ]Job 21:20Psalms 75:8Isaiah 51:17Revelation 14:10 16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”[ † ]Jeremiah 51:7Ezekiel 23:34Nahum 3:11
17So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the Lord had sent me, 18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;[ † ]Jeremiah 25:9-11Jeremiah 24:9 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people; 20all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;[ † ]Job 1:1Lamentations 4:21Jeremiah 47:1-7Ezekiel 25:16-17Isaiah 20:1 21Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;[ † ]Jeremiah 49:7 22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;[ † ]Jeremiah 47:4Zechariah 9:2-4Jeremiah 49:23 23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;[ † ]Isaiah 21:13Jeremiah 49:7-8 24all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;[ † ]Jeremiah 25:20Jeremiah 50:37Ezekiel 30:5 25all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;[ † ]Genesis 10:22Isaiah 11:11Jeremiah 49:34Isaiah 13:17Jeremiah 51:11-28 26all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.[ † ]Jeremiah 50:9
27“Then you are to tell them that this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’[ † ]Jeremiah 25:16Habakkuk 2:16Isaiah 63:6
28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it! 29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of Hosts.’[ † ]Proverbs 11:31Isaiah 10:12Jeremiah 13:13Ezekiel 9:6Luke 23:311 Peter 4:17Daniel 9:18Ezekiel 38:21
33Those slain by the Lord on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.[ † ]Isaiah 34:2-3Isaiah 66:16Jeremiah 16:4-6Ezekiel 39:4-17Psalms 79:3Jeremiah 8:2Revelation 11:9