Seventy Years of Captivity
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. Jer 36:12Ki 24:1-2Dan 1:1Jer 46:2 So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows: Jer 18:11Jer 19:14-15Jer 26:2Jer 35:13Jer 38:1-2Mrk 7:14-15Psa 49:1-2
“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, 1 but you have not listened. Jer 1:2Jer 11:7Jer 26:5Jer 7:132Ch 34:32Ch 34:8Jer 29:192Ti 4:2 And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, 2 but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear. Jer 25:3Jer 26:52Ch 36:15-16Act 7:51-52Heb 12:25Jer 11:7-10Jer 13:10-11Jer 16:12
The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. Jer 7:7Gen 17:8Isa 55:6-7Jer 17:25Ezk 18:30Jer 18:11Jer 35:15Jon 3:8-10 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ Deu 8:191Ki 14:222Ki 17:35Deu 6:14Jer 35:15Jer 7:61Ki 11:4-10Deu 13:2
‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’ 2Ki 21:15Pro 8:362Ki 17:17Deu 32:21Jer 32:30-33Jer 7:18-19Neh 9:26
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction 3and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. Isa 13:3Jer 1:15Jer 18:16Ezk 29:18-20Hab 1:6-10Jer 43:10Jer 6:22-261Ki 9:7-8
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. Jer 7:34Ezk 26:13Jer 16:9Rev 18:22-23Jer 33:10-11Ecc 12:2-4Est 3:13Est 7:4 And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. Dan 9:2Zec 1:122Ch 36:21-22Jer 25:12Zec 7:5Isa 23:15-17Jer 12:11-12Jer 4:27
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, 4 for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation. Dan 9:2Isa 13:19Jer 29:10Isa 14:23Jer 50:1-46Jer 51:62-642Ki 24:1Dan 5:1-31
I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. Jer 1:10Jer 1:5Dan 5:28Dan 5:31Rev 10:11 For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’” Jer 51:6Jer 27:7Jer 50:9Jer 50:41Isa 14:2Isa 45:1-3Isa 66:6Dan 5:28
The Cup of God’s Wrath
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. Psa 75:8Isa 51:17Job 21:20Rev 14:10Isa 51:22Jer 51:7Jer 13:12-14Psa 11:6 And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.” Jer 51:7Nam 3:11Ezk 23:32-34Jer 25:27Jer 51:39Lam 4:21Rev 14:10Rev 16:9-11
So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me, Jer 1:10Jer 25:28Ezk 43:3Jer 27:3Jer 46:1-28 to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials; Jer 24:9Jer 44:22Psa 60:31Ki 8:241Pe 4:172Ki 22:19Amo 2:5Amo 3:2 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people; Jer 46:13-26Jer 46:2Nam 3:8-10Ezk 29:1-21Jer 43:9-11 all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; Job 1:1Ezk 30:5Isa 20:1Jer 50:37Lam 4:21Exo 12:38Jer 25:24Jer 47:1-7 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites; Jer 48:1Jer 9:26Psa 137:7Amo 1:11Ezk 25:2-14Ezk 32:29Ezk 35:1-15Isa 15:1-9 all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; Jer 47:4Amo 1:3-5Amo 1:9-10Ezk 26:1-21Ezk 28:22-23Ezk 29:18Ezk 32:30Jer 27:3 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair; Jer 9:26Jer 49:32Jer 49:8Gen 22:21Job 6:191Ch 1:30Ezk 25:13Ezk 27:20 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 2Ch 9:14Jer 25:20Ezk 30:5Jer 50:371Ki 10:15Ezk 27:21Gen 25:12-16Gen 25:2-4 all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media; Gen 10:22Isa 11:11Isa 13:17Jer 49:34-39Jer 51:11Jer 51:28Dan 5:28Dan 8:2 all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach 5will drink it too. Jer 51:41Jer 25:9Dan 5:1-31Ezk 32:30Hab 2:16Isa 13:1-14Isa 47:1-15Jer 25:12
“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’ Hab 2:16Jer 25:16Ezk 21:4-5Isa 51:21Lam 4:21Deu 32:42Ezk 24:21-25Isa 63:6
If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it! Job 34:33Act 4:28Dan 4:35Eph 1:11Isa 14:24-27Isa 46:10-11Jer 4:28Jer 49:12 For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’ 1Pe 4:17Ezk 38:21Pro 11:311Ki 8:43Ezk 9:6Jer 49:12Oba 1:16Dan 9:18-19
So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: Amo 1:2Isa 42:13Jol 3:16Isa 16:9Psa 78:651Ki 9:32Ch 30:27Amo 3:8
‘The LORD will roar from on high;
He will raise His voice from His holy habitation.
He will roar loudly over His pasture;
like those who tread the grapes,
He will call out with a shout
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth Hos 4:1Jol 3:2Isa 66:16Mic 6:2Ezk 20:35-36Hos 12:2Isa 34:8Ezk 38:22
because the LORD brings a charge against the nations.
He brings judgment on all mankind
and puts the wicked to the sword,’”
declares the LORD.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Isa 34:2Jer 23:192Ch 15:6Isa 30:30Jer 30:23Isa 5:28Isa 66:18Luk 21:10
“Behold! Disaster is spreading
from nation to nation;
a mighty storm is rising
from the ends of the earth.”
Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground. Isa 66:16Jer 8:2Psa 79:3Isa 5:25Jer 16:4-72Ki 9:37Ezk 39:4-20Isa 34:2-8
The Cry of the Shepherds
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; Jer 6:262Ch 36:10Amo 5:11Dan 11:8Ezk 27:30-31Ezk 34:16-17Ezk 34:20Isa 10:12
roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
For the days of your slaughter have come;
you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery. 6
Flight will evade the shepherds, Job 11:20Amo 2:14Amo 9:1-3Dan 5:30Ezk 17:15Ezk 17:18Isa 2:12-22Isa 24:21-23
and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.
Hear the cry of the shepherds, Jer 4:8Jer 25:34
the wailing of the leaders of the flock,
for the LORD is destroying their pasture.
The peaceful meadows have been silenced Isa 27:10-11Isa 32:14
because of the LORD’s burning anger.
He has left His den like a lion, Jer 4:7Hos 13:7-8Hos 5:14Jer 5:6Amo 8:8Hos 11:10Jer 49:19Jer 50:44
for their land has been made a desolation
by the sword 7of the oppressor,
and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.