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The Call and Commission of Jeremiah Israel's Unfaithfulness and Call to Repentance Judah's Spiritual Adultery and Call to Return The Coming Calamity on the Land An Accusation against Jerusalem's Corruption The Siege and Devastation of Jerusalem The Temple Sermon: False Security Condemned Violence and Corruption in the Land Persistent Idolatry and Coming Punishment The Folly of Idols Judah's Flight and Jeremiah's Lament A Prayer for Direction and Deliverance The Broken Covenant and a Public Warning Conspiracy against Jeremiah and God's Vindication Jeremiah's Complaint to God A Call to Endure and Judgment on Nations The Linen Belt: Symbol of Judah's Humiliation A Sign of Shame and Pronounced Judgment A Lament of Shame and Imminent Disaster Famine, False Prophets, and Divine Judgment Symbolic Acts and the People's Sinfulness Warning about Sabbath Violations The Potter and the Broken Jar: Judgment on Jerusalem Persecution by Pashhur the Priest Jeremiah's Lament and Resolve A Message to the Royal House: Doom for Jerusalem Judgment on the Kings and Royal House False Shepherds Condemned and a Righteous Branch Promised Condemnation of False Prophets The Lord Rebukes False Oracles The Two Figs: Exile and Remnant Seventy Years of Babylonian Dominion The Cup of God's Wrath on the Nations Jeremiah's Temple Address, Arrest, and Vindication The Yoke of Babylon and Call to Submit Hananiah's False Prophecy and Its Rebuke Letter to the Exiles: Seek the Welfare of Babylon Shemaiah's Letter and Its Condemnation The Book of Comfort: Restoration and the New Covenant Jeremiah Buys a Field: Faith and Hope in Captivity Promise of Restoration and the Davidic Covenant Zedekiah's Appeal and Jeremiah's Warning Breach of Covenant and Punishment for Oppression The Rechabites' Fidelity as a Rebuke to Judah Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Words and the Scroll Is Burned Jeremiah Imprisoned during the Siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah Cast into a Cistern Ebed‑Melech Rescues Jeremiah; Zedekiah's Failure The Fall of Jerusalem and Jeremiah's Release Gedaliah Appointed Governor and Jeremiah's Choice Assassination of Gedaliah and the Terror in Judah Rejection of Jeremiah's Counsel and Flight to Egypt The Jews in Egypt: Idolatry and Condemnation A Word to Baruch: Encouragement and Warning Oracles against Egypt Judgment on the Philistines Judgment on Moab Judgment on Ammon Judgment on Edom Judgment on Damascus and Aram Destruction of Kedar and the Nomads Judgment on Elam and Future Restoration Judgment on Babylon and Its Final Fall The Fall of Jerusalem and Zedekiah's Fate Jehoiachin's Release from Babylonian Captivity

Seventy Years of Babylonian Dominion

Jeremiah 25:1-14

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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.