1The word that came to Ieremiah concerning all the people of Iudah, in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, that was the first yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon:

2The which Ieremiah the prophet spake vnto all the people of Iudah, and to all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying;

3From the thirteenth yere of Iosiah the sonne of Amon king of Iudah, euen vnto this day (that is the three and twentith yeere) the word of the Lord hath come vnto me, and I haue spoken vnto you, rising early and speaking, but yee haue not hearkened.

4And the Lord hath sent vnto you all his seruants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but yee haue not hearkened, nor inclined your eare to heare.

5They sayd, Turne yee againe now euery one from his euill way, and from the euil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath giuen vnto you, and to your fathers for euer and euer.

6And goe not after other Gods to serue them, and to worship them, and prouoke mee not to anger with the workes of your hands, and I will doe you no hurt.

7Yet yee haue not hearkened vnto me, saith the Lord, that yee might prouoke me to anger with the workes of your hands, to your owne hurt.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Because yee haue not heard my words:

9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the North, saith the Lord, and Nebuchad-rezzar the king of Babylon my seruant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will vtterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetuall desolations.

10Moreouer, I will take from them the voyce of myrth, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegrome, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the milstones, & the light of the candle.

11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon seuentie yeeres.

12 And it shall come to passe when seuentie yeeres are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquitie, and the land of the Caldeans, and will make it perpetuall desolations.

13And I will bring vpon that land all my words which I haue pronounced against it, euen all that is written in this booke, which Ieremiah hath prophecied against all the nations.

14For many nations and great kings shall serue themselues of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the workes of their owne hands.

15 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel vnto me, Take the wine cup of this furie at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drinke it.

16And they shall drinke, and be moued, and be mad, because of the sworde that I will send among them.

17Then tooke I the cuppe at the Lords hand, and made all the nations to drinke, vnto whom the Lord had sent me:

18To wit Ierusalem, and the cities of Iudah, 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:)

19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his seruants, and his princes, and all his people:

20And all the mingled people, & all the kings of the land of Uz: and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod:

21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon:

22And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the yles which are beyond the sea:

23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the vtmost corners:

24And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert:

25And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:

26And all the kings of the North, farre and neere, one with another, and all the kingdomes of the world, which are vpon the face of the earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drinke after them.

27Therefore thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Drinke ye and bee drunken, and spue and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I wil send among you.

28And it shall bee, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drinke, then shalt thou say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yee shall certainely drinke.

29For loe, I begin to bring euill on the citie, which is called by my name, and should yee be vtterly vnpunished? ye shall not be vnpunished: for I will cal for a sword vpon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

30Therefore prophecie thou against them all these wordes, and say vnto them, The Lord shall roare from an high, and vtter his voice from his holy habitation, he shall mightily roare vpon his habitation, hee shall giue a shout, as they that treade the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31A noise shall come euen to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controuersie with the nations: hee will pleade with all flesh, he will giue them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.

32Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, euill shall goe forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlewinde shall be raised vp from the coasts of the earth.

33And the slaine of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth euen vnto the other ende of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered nor buried, they shall be doung vpon the ground.

34 Howle yee shepheards and cry, and wallow your selues in the ashes ye principall of the flocke: for the dayes of your slaughter, and of your dispersions are accomplished, and yee shall fall like a pleasant vessell.

35And the shepheards shall haue no way to flee, nor the principall of the flocke to escape.

36A voyce of the cry of the shepheards, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.

37And the peaceable habitations are cut downe because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

38He hath forsaken his couert, as the Lyon: for their land is desolate, because of the fiercenesse of the oppressour, and because of his fierce anger.

1 THE word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4 And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5 They 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 unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, 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 the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish 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 upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of 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 unto me; 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 drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:
18 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;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
23 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 mingled people that dwell in the 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 of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
29 For, lo, 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 prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.
32 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33 And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.
37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

III == Jer 1:2 ; 7:13 ; 11:7-8 , 10 ; 13:10-11 ; 16:12 ; 19:15 ; 22:21

IV == Jer 7:13 , 25 ; 26:5 ; 29:19

V == 2nd Kings 17:13 ; Jer 18:11 ; 35:15 ; Jon 3:8

VII== Deut 32:21 ; Jer 7:19 ; 32:30

IX == Isa 44:28 ; 45:1 ; Jer 1:15 ; 18:16 ; 27:6 ; 40:2 ; 43:10

X == Eccl 12:4 ; Isa 24:7 ; Jer 7:34 ; 16:9 ; Ezek 26:13 ; Hos 2:11 ; Rev 18:23

XII == 2nd Chr 36:21-22 ; Ezra 1:1 ; Isa 13:19 ; 14:23 ; 21:1 ; 47:1 ; Jer 29:10 ; 50:3 , 13 , 23 , 39-40 , 45 ; 51:25-26 ; Dan 9:2

XV == Job 21:20 ; Ps 75:8 ; Isa 51:17 ; Rev 14:10

XVI == Jer 51:7 ; Ezek 23:34 ; Nah 3:11

XVIIIi == Jer 24:9 ; 25:9 , 11

XIX == Jer 46:2 , 25

XX == Job 1:1 ; Isa 20:1 ; Jer 25:24 ; 47:1 , 5 , 7

XXI == Jer 48:1 ; 49:1 , 7

XXII == Jer 47:4 ; 49:23

XXIII == Jer 9:26 ; 49:8 , 32

XXIV == 2nd Chr 9:14 ; Jer 25:20 ; 49:31 ; 50:37 ; Ezek 30:5

XXV == Jer 49:34

XXVI Jer 50:9 ; 51:41

XXVII == Isa 51:21 ; 63:6 ; Heb 2:16

XXIX == Prov 11:31 ; Dan 9:18-19 ; Luke 23:31 ; 1st Peter 4:17

XXX == Ps 11:4 ; 132:14 ; Jer 17:12 ; 48:33

XXXI == Joel 3:2 ; Mic 6:2

XXXIII == Ps 79:3 ; Isa 66:16 ; Jer 8:2 ; 16:4 , 6 ; Rev 11:9

XXXIV == Jer 4:8 ; 6:26

XXXV == Amos 2:14

XXXVIII == Ps 76:2 ; Jer 19:14 ; Ezek 3:10 ; Matt 28:20 ; Acts 20:27

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah (the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon).

2 This word the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem:

3 Since the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day-these three and twenty years-the word of the LORD has come to me and I spoke to you untiringly, but you would not listen.

4 Though you refused to listen or pay heed, the LORD has sent you without fail all his servants the prophets

5 with this message: Turn back, each of you, from your evil way and from your evil deeds; then you shall remain in the land which the LORD gave you and your fathers, from of old and forever.

6 Do not follow strange gods to serve and adore them, lest you provoke me with your handiwork, and I bring evil upon you.

7 But you would not listen to me, says the LORD, and so you provoked me with your handiwork to your own harm.

8 Hence, thus says the LORD of hosts: Since you would not listen to my words,

9 lo! I will send for and fetch all the tribes of the north, says the LORD (and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant); I will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of ridicule, of everlasting reproach.

10 Among them I will bring to an end the song of joy and the song of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp.

11 This whole land shall be a ruin and a desert. Seventy years these nations shall be enslaved to the king of Babylon;

12 but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and the nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt, says the LORD. Their land I will turn into everlasting desert.

13 Against that land I will fulfill all the words I have spoken against it (all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations).

14 They also shall be enslaved to great nations and mighty kings, and thus I will repay them according to their own deeds and according to their own handiwork.

15 For thus said the LORD, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of foaming wine from my hand, and have all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.

16 They shall drink, and be convulsed, and go mad, because of the sword I will send among them.

17 I took the cup from the hand of the LORD and gave drink to all the nations to which the LORD sent me:

18 (Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, her kings and her princes, to make them a ruin and a desert, an object of ridicule and cursing, as they are today;)

19 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants, his princes, all the people under him, native

20 and foreign; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

22 all the kings of Tyre, of Sidon, and of the shores beyond the sea;

23 Dedan and Tema and Buz, all the desert dwellers who shave their temples;

24 (all the kings of Arabia;)

25 all the kings of Zimri, of Elam, of the Medes;

26 all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other; all the kingdoms upon the face of the earth (and after them the king of Sheshach shall drink).

27 Tell them: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink! become drunk and vomit; fall, never to rise, before the sword that I will send among you!

28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, say to them: Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!

29 For since with this city, which is called by my name, I begin to inflict evil, how can you possibly be spared? You shall not be spared! I will call down the sword upon all who inhabit the earth, says the LORD of hosts.

30 Prophesy against them all these things and say to them: The LORD roars from on high, from his holy dwelling he raises his voice; Mightily he roars over the range, a shout like that of vintagers over the grapes.

31 To all who inhabit the earth to its very ends the uproar spreads; For the LORD has an indictment against the nations, he is to pass judgment upon all mankind: The godless shall be given to the sword, says the LORD.

32 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Lo! calamity stalks from nation to nation; A great storm is unleashed from the ends of the earth.

33 On that day, those whom the LORD has slain will be strewn from one end of the earth to the other. None will mourn them, none will gather them for burial; they shall lie like dung on the field.

34 Howl, you shepherds, and wail! roll in the dust, leaders of the flock! The time for your slaughter has come; like choice rams you shall fall.

35 There is no flight for the shepherds, no escape for the leaders of the flock.

36 Listen! Wailing from the shepherds, howling by the leaders of the flock! For the LORD lays waste their grazing place,

37 desolate lie the peaceful pastures;

38 The lion leaves his lair, and their land is made desolate By the sweeping sword, by the burning wrath of the LORD.

v 1-3. Chapters 2-25 were arranged topically, not chronologically, and in this one we get definite message of the length of captivity. Dan. 1:1 calls this the third instead of the fourth year of Jehoiakim, depending on when they start the time, 604 or 605 BC. Jeremiah had been prophesying twenty three years, but the people did not heed him.

v 4-7. During this time God had  sent Urijah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk and others, so the people were without excuse in continuing to worship idols to their own harm.

v 8-11. Therefore God would use Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar to make Judah and surrounding allies desolate and full of sorrow. God chose seventy years captivity to extract from the Jews the approximate seventy years of Sabbath rest they had failed to observe as commanded, Leviticus 26:33-35, and confirmed, 2 Chron. 36:20,21.

v 12-14. God had used Babylon to punish His people, but after the seventy years He used Persia to punish Babylon for their excess cruelty and idolatry.

v 15-26. Jeremiah had a vision of the Lord holding a cup of His wrath in His hand. Jeremiah was to make all the nations to which he was sent drink of it. The first to drink was Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. All the other nations surrounding Judah would next drink of it for their betrayal of Judah. His message of repentance from sin must also have gone in some manner to Elam and Media east of the Tigris. The last was to be Sheshach, a code name for Babylon which Jeremiah kept secret while Babylon’s armies were approaching Jerusalem. In 51:41 he names Babylon openly.

v 27-29. If in this vision form some nations refuse to drink of the cup, as it were get drunk and fall, they still will be punished, because God is punishing His own people.

v 30-33. This speaks of universal judgment coming on all nations, reaching the utmost fulfillment in the Tribulation.

v 34-38. The leaders of all these nations, then and future would be shattered like a piece of pottery. None can escape God’s anger.