Jeremiah 25:8

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

Jeremiah 25:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 25:8

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
Of armies above and below; and so can do what he pleases in heaven and in earth: because ye have not heard my words;
by the prophets, so as to obey them; they had heard them externally, but did not observe to do them.

Jeremiah 25:8 In-Context

6 and do 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 provoke 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 send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD , 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My 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 make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

10 'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy 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 lamp.