Jeremiah 25:2-12

2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the ¹people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

3 "From the ²thirteenth * year of ³Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these ⁴twenty-three * years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you ⁵again and again, but you have not listened.

4 "And the LORD has sent to you all His ⁶servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

5 saying, '⁷Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the LORD has given to you and your forefathers ⁸forever * and ever;

6 and ⁹do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.'

7 "Yet you have not listened to Me," declares the LORD, "in order that you might ¹⁰provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

8 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Because * you have not obeyed My words,

9 behold, I will ¹¹send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ¹²My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and ¹³make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

10 'Moreover, I will ¹⁴take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the ¹⁵sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

11 '¹⁶This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon ¹⁷seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

12 'Then it will be ¹⁸when seventy years are completed I will ¹⁹punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ²⁰I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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Jeremiah 25:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 25

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Judea by the king of Babylon; and also of Babylon itself, after the Jews' captivity of seventy years; and likewise of all the nations round about. The date of this prophecy is in Jer 25:1; when the prophet puts the Jews in mind of the prophecies that had been delivered unto them by himself and others, for some years past, without effect, Jer 25:2-7; wherefore they are threatened with the king of Babylon, that he should come against them, and strip them of all their desirable things; make their land desolate, and them captives for seventy years, Jer 25:8-11; at the expiration of which he in his turn shall be punished, and the land of Chaldea laid waste, and become subject to other nations and kings, Jer 25:12-14; and by a cup of wine given to all the nations round about, is signified the utter ruin of them, and who are particularly mentioned by name, Jer 25:15-26; which is confirmed by beginning with the city of Jerusalem, and the destruction of that, Jer 25:27-29; wherefore the prophet is bid to prophesy against them, and to declare the Lord's controversy with them, and that there should be a slaughter of them from one end of the earth to the other, Jer 25:30-33; upon which the shepherds, kings, and rulers of them, are called to lamentation and howling, Jer 25:34-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Cross References 20

1. Jeremiah 18:11
2. Jeremiah 1:2
3. 2 Chr 34:1-3, 8
4. Jeremiah 36:2
5. Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 26:5
6. 2 Chronicles 36:15; Jeremiah 26:5
7. 2 Kings 17:13; Isaiah 55:6, 7; Jeremiah 4:1; Jeremiah 35:15; Ezekiel 18:30; Jonah 3:8-10
8. Genesis 17:8; Jeremiah 7:7; Jeremiah 17:25
9. Deuteronomy 6:14; Deuteronomy 8:19; 2 Kings 17:35; Jeremiah 35:15
10. 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:15; Jeremiah 7:19; Jeremiah 32:30-33
11. Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 6:22, 23
12. Isaiah 13:3; Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 43:10
13. 1 Kings 9:7, 8; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 25:18
14. Isaiah 24:8-11; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9; Ezekiel 26:13; Revelation 18:23
15. Ecclesiastes 12:4; Isaiah 47:2
16. Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 12:11, 12
17. 2 Chronicles 36:21; Jeremiah 29:10; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5
18. Ezra 1:1; Jeremiah 29:10; Daniel 9:2
19. Isaiah 13:14; Jeremiah 50, 51
20. Isaiah 13:19

Footnotes 7

[a]. Lit "this"
[b]. Lit "rising early and speaking"
[c]. Lit "rising early and sending"
[d]. Or "worship"
[e]. Or "bow down to"
[f]. Or "put them under the ban"
[g]. Lit "cause to perish"