The Anselm Project

Chapter 25

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 — it was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. ² 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 son of Amon king of Judah until this day, this is twenty-three years, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not hear. ⁴ And the LORD sent all his servants the prophets to you, rising early and sending them, but you did not listen or incline your ear to hear. ⁵ to say, "Return now, each man from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD gave to you and to your fathers from eternity and to eternity." ⁶ And do not go after other gods to serve them and to prostrate to them, and do not provoke Me with the work of your hands, and I will not harm you. ⁷ And you did not listen to me, says the LORD, in order to provoke me to anger by the work of your hands, to your harm. ⁸ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not heard my words. ⁹ Behold, I am sending and taking all the families of the north—oracle of the LORD—and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel my servant, and I will bring them upon this land and upon its inhabitants and upon all these nations all around, and I will ban them and put them for desolation and for whistling and for ruins of eternity. ¹⁰ And I will destroy from them the sound of rejoicing and the sound of joy, the sound of the bridegroom and the sound of the bride, the sound of millstones and the light of a lamp. ¹¹ And all this land will be a desolation, a wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babel seventy years. ¹² And it will be when the seventy years are completed, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, says the LORD, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, and I will put it to desolations of eternity. ¹³ And I will bring upon that land all the words that I spoke about it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied concerning all the nations. ¹⁴ for they have served them—also they, many nations and great kings—and I have repaid them according to their work and according to the deed of their hands.