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 (this was the first year of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to
allthe people ofJudah, and to allthe inhabitants
of Jerusalem:

3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the
son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this
day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s
word has come to me, and I have spoken to
you, rising up early and speaking; but you
have not listened.

4 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants
the prophets, rising up early and sending
them(but youhavenotlistened or inclined
your ear to hear),

5 saying, “Return now everyone from his
evil way, and from the evil of your doings,
and dwell in the land that Yahweh has
given to you and to your fathers, from of
old and even forever more.

6 Don’t go after other gods to serve them
or worship them, and don’t provoke me to
anger with the work of your hands; then I
will do you no harm.”

7 “Yet you have not listened to me,” says
Yahweh, “that you may provoke me to
anger with the work of your hands to your
own hurt.”

8 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says:
“Because you have not heard my words,

9 behold, I will send and take all the
families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and
I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them
against this land, and against its inhabitants,
and against allthese nations around. I will
utterly destroy them, and make them
an astonishment, and a 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 lamp.

11 This whole land will be a desolation,
and an astonishment; and these nations
will serve the king of Babylon seventy
years.

12 “It will happen, when seventy years
are accomplished, that I will punish the
king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh,
“for their iniquity. I will make the
land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.

13 I will bring on that land all my words
which I have pronounced against it, even
all that is written in this book, which
Jeremiah has prophesied against all the
nations.

14 For many nations and great kings will
make bondservants of them, even of them.
I will recompense them according to their
deeds, and according to the work of their
hands.”

15 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to
me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath
from my hand, and cause all the nations to
whom I send you to drink it.

16 They will drink, and reel back and
forth, and be insane, because of the sword
that I will send among them.”

17 Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand,
and made allthe nations to drink, to whom
Yahweh had sent me:

18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah,
with its kings and its princes,to make them
a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing,
and a curse, as it is today;

19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants,
his princes, and all his people;