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the word of the LORD has come to me; and I and great kings shall be served by them also;
have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and I will repay them according to their deeds
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but you have not listened. And the LORD has and according to the works of their own
sent to you all His servants the prophets, ris- hands.)’ ”
ing early and sending them, but you have not 15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me:
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listened nor inclined your ear to hear. They “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and
said, ‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to
his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the drink it. And they will drink and stagger and
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LORD has given to you and your fathers forev- go mad because of the sword that I will send
er and ever. Do not go after other gods to among them.”
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serve them and worship them, and do not 17 Then I took the cup from the LORD’s hand,
provoke Me to anger with the works of your and made all the nations drink, to whom the
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hands; and I will not harm you.’ Yet you have LORD had sent me: Jerusalem and the cities
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not listened to Me,” says the LORD, “that you of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make
might provoke Me to anger with the works of them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing,
your hands to your own hurt. and a curse, as it is this day; Pharaoh king of
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8 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his
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‘Because you have not heard My words, be- people; all the mixed multitude, all the kings
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hold, I will send and take all the families of the of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of
north,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza,
the king of Babylon, My servant, and will Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod); Edom,
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bring them against this land, against its inhab- Moab, and the people of Ammon; all the kings
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itants, and against these nations all around, of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of
and will utterly destroy them, and make them the coastlands which are across the sea;
an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual des- 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the far-
olations. Moreover I will take from them the thest corners; all the kings of Arabia and all
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voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the the desert; all the kings of Zimri, all the
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bride, the sound of the millstones and the light kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
of the lamp. And this whole land shall be a 26 all the kings of the north, far and near, one
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desolation and an astonishment, and these with another; and all the kingdoms of the world
nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy which are on the face of the earth. Also the
years. king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
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“Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
“Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no
25:11 seventy years. Here is the first specific more, because of the sword which I will send
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statement on the length of the exile .This peri- among you.” ’ And it shall be, if they refuse to
od probably began in the fourth year of take the cup from your hand to drink, then
Jehoiakim, when Jerusalem was first captured you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of
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and the temple treasures were taken. It ends hosts: “You shall certainly drink! For behold,
with the decree of Cyrus to let the Jews return, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is
spanning from ca.605/04 B.C.to 536/35 B.C.The called by My name, and should you be utterly
exact number of Sabbath years is 490 years, unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for
the period from Saul to the Babylonian captiv- I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of
ity.This was retribution for their violation of the the earth,” says the LORD of hosts.’
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“Therefore prophesy against them all these
words, and say to them:
12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy ‘The LORD will roar from on high,
years are completed, that I will punish the king And utter His voice from His holy
of Babylon and that nation, the land of the habitation;
Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the LORD; He will roar mightily against His fold.
‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. So I He will give a shout, as those who
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will bring on that land all My words which I tread the grapes,
have pronounced against it, all that is written Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied 31 A noise will come to the ends of the
concerning all the nations. (For many nations earth—
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