1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in theThat is, in the third year accomplished and in the beginning of the fourth: for though Nebuchadnezzar began to reign in the end of the third year of Jehoiakim's reign yet that year is not counted here because it was almost over, (Dan_1:1).fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
2 The which Ieremiah the Prophet spake vnto all the people of Iudah, and to all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even toWhich was the fifth year and the ninth month of Jehoiakim's reign.this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come to me, and I have spoken to you,That is, I have spared no diligence or labour, (Jer_7:13).rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4 And the Lord hath sent vnto you all his seruantes the Prophets, rising early & sending them, but yee would not heare, nor encline your eares to obey.
5 TheyHe shows that the prophets, wholly with one consent laboured to pull the people from those vices, which then reigned, that is, from idolatry and the vain confidence of men: for under these two all others were contained, (2Ki_17:13; Jer_18:11, Jer_35:15; Jon_3:8).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 to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serue them and to worshippe them, and prouoke me not to anger with the workes of your hands, and I will not punish you.
7 Neuerthelesse ye would not heare me, saith the Lord, but haue prouoked mee to anger with the workes of your hands to your owne hurt.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes, Because ye haue not heard my wordes,
9 Behold, I will send and take all theThe Chaldeans and all their power.families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, mySo the wicked and Satan himself are God's servants, because he makes them serve him by constraint and turns that which they do out of malice to his honour and glory.servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nationsAs the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others.around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an horror, 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 theMeaning that bread and all things that would serve to their feasts would be taken away.millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 And this whole land shalbe desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres.
12 And it shall come to pass, whenThis revelation was for the confirmation of his prophecy because he told them of the time that they would enter and remain in captivity, (2Ch_36:22; Ezr_1:1; Jer_29:10; Dan_9:2).seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punishFor seeing the judgment began at his own house, the enemies must be punished most grievously, (Eze_9:6; 1Pe_4:17).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 vpon that lande all my wordes which I haue pronounced against it, euen all that is written in this booke, which Ieremiah hath prophecied against all nations.
14 For many nations and great kings shall beThat is of the Babylonians as in (Jer_27:7).served by 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 to me;Signifying the extreme affliction that God had appointed for everyone, (Psa_75:8; Isa_51:17) and this cup which the wicked drink, is more bitter than that which he gives to his children, for he measures the one by mercy, and the other by justice.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 drinke, and be moued and be mad, because of the sworde that I will sende among them.
17 Then tooke I the cup at the Lordes hand, and made all people to drinke, vnto whome the Lorde had sent me:
18 [That is], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her kings, and her princes, to make them a desolation, an horror, an hissing, and a curse;For now it begins and will so continue till it is accomplished.as [it is] this day;
19 Pharaoh also, King of Egypt, and his seruants, and his princes, and all his people:
20 And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the landRead (Job_1:1).of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, andWhich were cities of the Philistines.Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom is here taken for the whole country and Uz for a part of it.Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of theAs Greece, Italy and the rest of those countries.isles which [are] beyond the sea,
23 These were people of Arabia which came of Dedan the son of Abraham and Keturah.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 mixed people that dwell in theFor there were two countries so named, the one called plentiful and the other barren, or desert.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 ofThat is of Babylon, as in (Jer_51:41).Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Drinke and bee drunken, and spewe and fall, and rise no more, because of the sworde, which I will sende among you.
28 But if they refuse to take the cuppe at thine hande to drinke, then tell them, Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, Ye shall certainely drinke.
29 For, lo,That is Jerusalem, read (Jer_25:12).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 prophecie thou against them al these words, and say vnto them, The Lord shall roare from aboue, and thrust out his voyce from his holy habitation: he shall roare vpon his habitation, and crie aloude, as they that presse the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 The sounde shall come to the endes of the earth: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the nations, and will enter into iudgement with all flesh, and he will giue them that are wicked, to the sworde, saith the Lord.
32 Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, Behold, a plague shall goe foorth from nation to nation, and a great whirlewinde shalbe raised vp from the coastes of the earth,
33 AndThey who are slain at the Lord's appointment.the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be refuse upon the ground.
34 Howl,You that are chief rulers, and governors.ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye chief of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like aWhich are most easily broken.pleasant vessel.
35 And theIt will not help them to seek to flee.shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the chief of the flock to escape.
36 A voyce of the crye of the shepherdes, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shalbe heard: for the Lord hath destroyed their pasture.
37 And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the Lorde.
38 He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.
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