You have kept what you promised to your servant, my father David. You spoke directly to him and you fulfilled your promise by your power as it is today.
Jeremiah 25:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing #– #as it is today; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Jerusalem and the cities of Judah [being most guilty because their privileges were greatest], its kings and princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is to this day; [I Pet. 4:17.] American Standard Version (1901) to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; Common English Bible Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials. This was to make them a wasteland, an object of horror, shock, and cursing, as it is today; Catholic Public Domain Version Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its leaders, so that I gave them over to desolation, and stupor, and hissing, and a curse, just as it is this day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To wit, Jerusalem and the cities of Juda and the kings thereof and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation and an astonishment and a hissing and a curse, as it is at this day. |
You have kept what you promised to your servant, my father David. You spoke directly to him and you fulfilled your promise by your power as it is today.
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
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.
Our guilt has been terrible from the days of our ancestors until the present. Because of our iniquities we have been handed over, along with our kings and priests, to the surrounding kings, and to the sword, captivity, plundering, and open shame, as it is today.
Here we are today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness. Here we are #– #slaves in it!
He reduces princes to nothing and makes judges of the earth like a wasteland.
You will leave your name behind as a curse for my chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you; but he will give his servants another name.
See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and demolish, to build and plant.
‘This is what the Lord says: Just like this I will ruin the great pride of both Judah and Jerusalem.
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.
This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
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.
I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.” ’
The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
He has carried out his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers , by bringing on us a disaster that is so great that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.
Therefore, I will send fire against Judah, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.
I have known only you out of all the clans of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
The statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house have been observed; you have followed their policies. Therefore, I will make you a desolate place and the city’s residents an object of contempt; , you will bear the scorn of my people.’ ,
But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and make trouble for it.
For the time has come for judgement to begin with God’s household, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?