1The word which came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon;

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Jeremiah 36:1, Jeremiah 36:1, 2 Kings 24:1, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:1

2which Jeremiah the prophet spake to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:—

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Jeremiah 18:11, Jeremiah 18:11, Jeremiah 38:1, Jeremiah 38:2, Jeremiah 19:14

3From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, for three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

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Jeremiah 11:7, Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 11:7, Jeremiah 1:2

4Also Jehovah hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

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Jeremiah 25:3, Jeremiah 25:3, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 44:4

5"Turn ye now," said they, "every one from your evil way, and from your evil doings, and ye shall dwell in the land which Jehovah gave to you and to your fathers for ever and ever.

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Jeremiah 7:7, Jeremiah 7:7, Genesis 17:8, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7

6And go not after strange gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt."

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Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 6:14, Jeremiah 35:15, 2 Kings 17:35

7But ye have not hearkened to me, saith Jehovah, that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

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2 Kings 21:15, 2 Kings 21:15, Deuteronomy 32:21, Jeremiah 32:30, Jeremiah 32:33

8Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not hearkened to my words,

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9behold, I will send and take all the nations of the North, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and a perpetual desolation.

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Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 18:16, Isaiah 13:3, Jeremiah 1:15, Isaiah 13:3

10Yea, 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 mill-stones, and the light of the lamp.

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Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Ezekiel 26:13, Revelation 18:22, Revelation 18:23

11And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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Daniel 9:2, Daniel 9:2, Zechariah 1:12, Zechariah 1:12, Jeremiah 25:12

12But when seventy years shall have passed, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their iniquity, saith Jehovah, and the land of the Chaldaeans, and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

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Daniel 9:2, Isaiah 13:19, Daniel 9:2, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 29:10

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

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Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 1:10, Daniel 5:31

14For they, even they, shall be brought into subjection to many nations and great kings. I will render to them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

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Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 50:9, Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 50:9

15For thus hath Jehovah, the God of Israel, said to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand; and let all the nations to which I shall send thee drink of it.

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Psalms 75:8, Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:17, Job 21:20

16Let them drink, and stagger, and become mad because of the sword which I am about to send among them.

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Nahum 3:11, Jeremiah 51:7, Nahum 3:11, Jeremiah 51:7, Revelation 16:9

17So I took the cup from the hand of Jehovah, and gave it to all the nations to drink, to which Jehovah sent me;

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Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 25:28, Jeremiah 25:28, Jeremiah 46:1

18to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, and to the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse; [as it is this day.]

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Jeremiah 44:22, Jeremiah 24:9, Psalms 60:3, Jeremiah 44:22, Jeremiah 24:9

19To Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his servants, and to his princes, and to all his people,

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Jeremiah 46:13, Jeremiah 46:26, Jeremiah 46:2, Nahum 3:8, Nahum 3:10

20and all the allied people; and to all the kings of the land of Uz, and to all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and to Askelon, and to Gaza, and to Ekron, and to the remnant of Ashdod;

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Job 1:1, Job 1:1, Lamentations 4:21, Ezekiel 30:5, Jeremiah 50:37

21to Edom, and to Moab, and to the children of Ammon;

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Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 49:22, Psalms 137:7

22and to all the kings of Tyre, and to all the kings of Sidon, and to the kings of the lands which are beyond the sea;

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Jeremiah 47:4, Jeremiah 47:4, Ezekiel 28:22, Ezekiel 28:23, Jeremiah 49:23

23to Dedan, and to Tema, and to Buz, and to all that shave the cheek;

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Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 49:32, Jeremiah 49:8, Jeremiah 49:32

24and to all the kings of Arabia, and to all the kings of the allied people who dwell in the desert;

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2 Chronicles 9:14, 2 Chronicles 9:14, Jeremiah 25:20, Jeremiah 25:20, Jeremiah 50:37

25and to all the kings of Zimri, and to all the kings of Elam, and to all the kings of Media;

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Genesis 10:22, Isaiah 11:11, Genesis 10:22, Isaiah 11:11, Jeremiah 51:28

26and to all the kings of the North, those that are near, and those that are afar off with respect to each other, and to all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

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Jeremiah 51:41, Jeremiah 51:41, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:9, Revelation 18:1

27And say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye and be drunken, and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword which I am about to send among you.

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Jeremiah 25:16, Habakkuk 2:16, Jeremiah 25:16, Habakkuk 2:16, Lamentations 4:21

28And if they refuse to take the cup from thy hand to drink, then say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink!

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Job 34:33, Job 34:33, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11

29For behold, upon the city which is called by my name I begin to bring evil; and shall ye go wholly unpunished? Ye shall not go unpunished; for I am about to call the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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1 Peter 4:17, Ezekiel 38:21, Proverbs 11:31, 1 Peter 4:17, Ezekiel 38:21

30Therefore, prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:—Jehovah shall roar from on high, From his holy habitation shall he utter his voice; He shall roar aloud against his dwelling-place; A shout like that of vintagers shall he raise Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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Amos 1:2, Amos 1:2, Isaiah 42:13, Joel 3:16, Isaiah 42:13

31An outcry shall reach to the ends of the earth; For Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; He entereth into judgment with all flesh; The wicked will he give up to the sword, saith Jehovah.

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Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:1, Joel 3:2, Joel 3:2, Isaiah 66:16

32Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the extremities of the earth.

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Jeremiah 23:19, Isaiah 34:2, Jeremiah 23:19, Isaiah 34:2, 2 Chronicles 15:6

33At that day shall the slain of Jehovah lie From one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; They shall not be lamented, nor gathered, nor buried; They shall be dung upon the ground.

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Isaiah 66:16, Isaiah 66:16, Jeremiah 8:2, Jeremiah 8:2, Psalms 79:3

34Howl, O ye shepherds, and cry! Roll yourselves in the dust, ye leaders of the flock, For your time to be slaughtered has come! And I will scatter you, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.

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Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 25:23, Jeremiah 48:26, Jeremiah 25:12

35The shepherds shall have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

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Job 11:20, Job 11:20, Amos 2:14, Amos 2:14, Revelation 19:19

36[Hark!] the voice of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the leaders of the flock, Because Jehovah layeth waste their pasture!

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Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 25:34, Jeremiah 25:34

37Yea, the peaceful pastures are destroyed Because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

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Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 32:14

38He hath left, like a lion, his covert; For their land is become desolate, Because of the wrath of the destroying sword, And because of the fierceness of his anger.

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Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 5:6, Hosea 13:7, Hosea 13:8