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Jeremiah 25:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I am going to send for all the families of the north”   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror  and scorn, and ruins for ever.

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They have made their land a horror, a perpetual object of scorn;  , all who pass by it will be appalled and shake their heads.


Indeed, I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. They will come, and each king will set up his throne at the entrance to Jerusalem’s gates. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.


I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my warriors, who celebrate my triumph, to execute my wrath.


and tell them, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will place his throne on these stones that I have embedded, and he will pitch his pavilion over them.


I will make them an object of horror  and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, an example for disgrace, scorn, ridicule,  and cursing, wherever I have banished them.


who says to Cyrus,  ‘My shepherd, he will fulfil all my pleasure’ and says to Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Its foundation will be laid.’


“Some of your descendants #– #who come from you, whom you father #– #will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’


For this is what the Lord God says: ‘See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar  of Babylon, king of kings,  against Tyre from the north with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a huge assembly of troops.


The captain of the guards took Jeremiah and said to him, ‘The Lord your God decreed this disaster on this place,


From Dan, the snorting of horses is heard. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all its residents.


‘Run for cover out of Jerusalem, Benjaminites. Sound the ram’s horn  in Tekoa; raise a smoke signal  over Beth-haccherem, for disaster threatens from the north, even a crushing blow.


Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger – the staff in their hands is my wrath.


A king’s heart is like channelled water in the  Lord’s hand: He directs it wherever he chooses.


You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.


Therefore, the wrath of the Lord was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery,  , as you see with your own eyes.


A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.


Listen! A noise #– #it is coming – a great commotion  from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.


for this is what the Lord says, “I am about to make you a terror to both yourself and those you love.  They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes.  I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon and put them to the sword.


‘Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: “Because you have not obeyed my words,


I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth #– #a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations  where I have banished them.


‘Take a scroll,  and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time I first spoke to you during Josiah’s reign until today.


You are to proclaim concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, “This is what the Lord says: You have burned the scroll, asking, ‘Why have you written on it that  the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and cause it to be without people or animals? ’


The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become dreadful. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’


‘ “This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom,  who took  my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt  so that its pastureland became  plunder.


Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty,  greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.


The Lord sent Chaldean, Aramean,  Moabite,  and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord he had spoken through his servants the prophets.


This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah,  and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation  until seventy years were fulfilled.


Then the Lord said to me, ‘Disaster will be poured out  from the north  on all who live in the land.


The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.


This is what the Lord says: ‘Concerning all my evil neighbours who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to my people, Israel, I am about to uproot them  from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from them.


However, when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched into the land,  we said, “Come, let’s go into Jerusalem to get away from the Chaldean and Aramean armies.” So we have been living in Jerusalem.’


Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.  ,


‘Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets  of the Jordan to the watered grazing land.  I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me?  Who will issue me a summons?  Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ’


They will bring a mob against you  to stone you and to cut you to pieces with their swords.


The sword is given to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened, and it is polished, to be put in the hand of the slayer.”


Are you not from eternity, Lord  my God? My Holy One,  you   will not die. Lord, you appointed them to execute judgement; my Rock,  you destined them to punish us.


Will they therefore empty their net and continually slaughter nations without mercy?





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