Jer 25:9-29 | NASB2020 | STEP | 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 surrounding nations ; and I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and hissing , and an everlasting place of ruins .

Jeremiah 25:9-29

9 behold, I will ^asend and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^bMy servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^{▼▼Or put them under the ban}completely destroy them and ^dmake them an object of horror and ^{▼▼Or whistling}hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins. 10 Moreover, I will ^feliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the ^gsound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 ^hThis entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for ⁱseventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

12 ‘Then it will be ^jwhen seventy years are completed I will ^kpunish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^lI will make it an everlasting desolation. 13 I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in ^mthis book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ⁿall the nations. 14 ( ^{▼▼Or For they have served many nations and great kings}For ^pmany nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^qrepay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”

15 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this ^rcup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it. 16 Then they will ^sdrink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”

17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and ^tgave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it: 18 To ^uJerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^{▼▼Or whistling}hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 To ^wPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; 20 and to all the ^xforeign ^{▼▼Or mercenaries}people, all the kings of the ^zland of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^aaPhilistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^abAshdod); 21 To ^acEdom, ^adMoab, and the sons of ^aeAmmon; 22 and to all the kings of ^afTyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^agthe coastlands which are beyond the sea; 23 and to ^ahDedan, Tema, ^aiBuz, and all who ^ajtrim the corners of their hair; 24 and to all the kings of ^akArabia and all the kings of the ^alforeign ^{▼▼Or mercenaries}people who live in the desert; 25 and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^anElam, and all the kings of ^aoMedia; 26 and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^apall the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of ^{▼▼Cryptic name for Babylon
,} ^arSheshach shall drink it after them.

27 “And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “ ^asDrink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the ^atsword which I am sending among you.”’ 28 And if they ^aurefuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “ ^avYou shall certainly drink! 29 For behold, I am ^awbeginning to inflict disaster on this city which is ^axcalled by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^ayI am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of armies.’