Book of Jeremiah bible study chapters 19 through 27

            Here are the next 9 chapters in the book of Jeremiah continuing his prophecies over the people of Judah, and also he starts getting persecuted for these prophecies plus Jeremiah names the empire by name- Babylon, and even its ruler Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, speaking of giving all the people into king Nebuchadnezzar’s hand, as judgment and punishment for their evils (idolatry, rejecting God, others) . Here is a link to the study which covers chapters 10 through 18 of the book of Jeremiah

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In Jeremiah chapter 19 the prophet is ordered to assemble the people together and then pronounce a terrible message of judgment against their evil including idolatry and murder, which Jeremiah does

(Jeremiah 19:1)  Thus says the LORD, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,

(Jeremiah 19:2)  and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.

(Jeremiah 19:3)  You shall say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

(Jeremiah 19:4)  Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

(Jeremiah 19:5)  and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind--

(Jeremiah 19:6)  therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

(Jeremiah 19:7)  And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

(Jeremiah 19:8)  And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

(Jeremiah 19:9)  And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.'

(Jeremiah 19:10)  "Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

(Jeremiah 19:11)  and shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

(Jeremiah 19:12)  Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

(Jeremiah 19:13)  The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah--all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods--shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.'"

(Jeremiah 19:14)  Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD's house and said to all the people:

(Jeremiah 19:15)  "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words."

In Jeremiah chapter 20, Jeremiah is persecuted for delivering God’s message beaten and put in the stocks, and then prophesies against his persecutor, and also Jeremiah then prophesies Judah’s coming captivity in Babylon and also then Jeremiah praises the Lord for his delivery from those who were persecuting Jeremiah

(Jeremiah 20:1)  Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

(Jeremiah 20:2)  Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 20:3)  The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror On Every Side.

(Jeremiah 20:4)  For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword.

(Jeremiah 20:5)  Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon.

(Jeremiah 20:6)  And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely."

(Jeremiah 20:7)  O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.

(Jeremiah 20:8)  For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

(Jer 20:9)  If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

(Jer 20:10)  For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him."

(Jeremiah 20:11)  But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

(Jeremiah 20:12)  O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.

(Jeremiah 20:13)  Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

(Jeremiah 20:14)  Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!

(Jeremiah 20:15)  Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, "A son is born to you," making him very glad.

(Jeremiah 20:16)  Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,

(Jeremiah 20:17)  because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

(Jeremiah 20:18)  Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

In Jeremiah chapter 21 King Zedekiah sends for a word from the Lord concerning Nebuchadnezzar, and the Lord says all Jerusalem will be given into his hand and the Lord will fight against it, and even advises people to surrender to the Chaldean army to survive, this to punish their wrongdoing

(Jeremiah 21:1)  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

(Jeremiah 21:2)  "Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us."

(Jeremiah 21:3)  Then Jeremiah said to them:

(Jeremiah 21:4)  "Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

(Jeremiah 21:5)  I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath.

(Jeremiah 21:6)  And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.

(Jeremiah 21:7)  Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.'

(Jeremiah 21:8)  "And to this people you shall say: 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

(Jeremiah 21:9)  He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.

(Jeremiah 21:10)  For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'

(Jeremiah 21:11)  "And to the house of the king of Judah say, 'Hear the word of the LORD,

(Jeremiah 21:12)  O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"

(Jer emiah21:13)  "Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the LORD; you who say, 'Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?'

(Jeremiah21:14)  I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her."

In Jeremiah chapter 22 the Lord makes promises for those who obey a prophetic word but judgments and punishments for those who do not. Some are listed who will go into captivity in Babylon the rest of their lives

(Jeremiah 22:1)  Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word,

(Jeremiah 22:2)  and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates.

(Jeremiah 22:3)  Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

(Jeremiah 22:4)  For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people.

(Jeremiah 22:5)  But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

(Jeremiah 22:6)  For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "'You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

(Jeremiah 22:7)  I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.

(Jeremiah 22:8)  "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"

(Jeremiah 22:9)  And they will answer, "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them."'"

(Jeremiah 22:10)  Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.

(Jeremiah 22:11)  For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: "He shall return here no more,

(Jeremiah 22:12)  but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again."

(Jeremiah 22:13)  "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,

(Jeremiah 22:14)  who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.

(Jeremiah 22:15)  Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

(Jeremiah 22:16)  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 22:17)  But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."

(Jeremiah 22:18)  Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, my brother!' or 'Ah, sister!' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, lord!' or 'Ah, his majesty!'

(Jeremiah 22:19)  With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem."

(Jeremiah 22:20)  "Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.

(Jeremiah 22:21)  I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

(Jeremiah 22:22)  The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil.

(Jeremiah 22:23)  O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!"

(Jeremiah 22:24)  "As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

(Jeremiah 22:25)  and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

(Jeremiah 22:26)  I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.

(Jeremiah 22:27)  But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return."

(Jeremiah 22:28)  Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know?

(Jeremiah 22:29)  O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

(Jeremiah 22:30)  Thus says the LORD: "Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah."

In Jeremiah chapter 23 is a word concerning the shepherds, teachers and prophets, encouraging them to be true to God’s words and promising severe punishment and judgment on the false teachers and prophets

(Jeremiah 23:1)  "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:2)  Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: "You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:3)  Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

(Jeremiah 23:4)  I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:5)  "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

(Jeremiah 23:6)  In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'

(Jeremiah 23:7)  "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they shall no longer say, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

(Jeremiah 23:8)  but 'As the LORD lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' Then they shall dwell in their own land."

(Jeremiah 23:9)  Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.

(Jeremiah 23:10)  For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.

(Jeremiah 23:11)  "Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:12)  Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:13)  In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

(Jeremiah 23:14)  But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah."

(Jeremiah 23:15)  Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land."

(Jeremiah 23:16)  Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:17)  They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'"

(Jeremiah 23:18)  For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?

(Jeremiah 23:19)  Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

(Jeremiah 23:20)  The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.

(Jeremiah 23:21)  "I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

(Jeremiah 23:22)  But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.

(Jeremiah 23:23)  "Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away?

(Jeremiah 23:24)  Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:25)  I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

(Jeremiah 23:26)  How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,

(Jeremiah 23:27)  who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?

(Jeremiah 23:28)  Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:29)  Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

(Jeremiah 23:30)  Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal my words from one another.

(Jeremiah 23:31)  Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who use their tongues and declare, 'declares the LORD.'

(Jeremiah 23:32)  Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD.

(Jeremiah 23:33)  "When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, 'What is the burden of the LORD?' you shall say to them, 'You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the LORD.'

(Jeremiah 23:34)  And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, 'The burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household.

(Jeremiah 23:35)  Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, 'What has the LORD answered?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'

(Jeremiah 23:36)  But 'the burden of the LORD' you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.

(Jeremiah 23:37)  Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'

(Jeremiah 23:38)  But if you say, 'The burden of the LORD,' thus says the LORD, 'Because you have said these words, "The burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The burden of the LORD,'"

(Jeremiah 23:39)  therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

(Jeremiah 23:40)  And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"

In Jeremiah chapter 24 the prophet is then given a vision of two baskets of figs- one a good  basket that has very good figs and one a bad basket with really bad figs, so bad to be completely inedible- the good one are exiles to Babylon of whom God will bless and eventually return to the land, the bad ones, who are rebels will be punished and destroyed for they are evil people

(Jeremiah 24:1)  After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 24:2)  One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

(Jeremiah 24:3)  And the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten."

(Jeremiah 24:4)  Then the word of the LORD came to me:

(Jeremiah 24:5)  "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

(Jeremiah 24:6)  I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.

(Jeremiah 24:7)  I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

(Jeremiah 24:8)  "But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

(Jeremiah 24:9)  I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

(Jeremiah 24:10)  And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers."

In Jeremiah chapter 25 Jeremiah notes that the people refused to hear any of the prophets God had sent to them for 23 years so because of that terrible judgment is coming their way in the form of Nebuchadnezzar will come to kill and destroy them for their refusal to repent of all their evils and refusal to hear the word, and this will be a widespread judgment against many nations

(Jeremiah 25:1)  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 (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

(Jeremiah 25:2)  which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

(Jeremiah 25:3)  "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.

(Jeremiah 25:4)  You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

(Jeremiah 25:5)  saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.

(Jeremiah 25:6)  Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'

(Jeremiah 25:7)  Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

(Jeremiah 25:8)  "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,

(Jeremiah 25:9)  behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

(Jeremiah 25:10)  Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

(Jeremiah 25:11)  This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

(Jeremiah 25:12)  Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.

(Jeremiah 25:13)  I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

(Jeremiah 25:14)  For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."

(Jeremiah 25:15)  Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

(Jeremiah 25:16)  They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them."

(Jeremiah 25:17)  So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:

(Jeremiah 25:18)  Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

(Jeremiah 25:19)  Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,

(Jeremiah 25:20)  and all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

(Jeremiah 25:21)  Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;

(Jer 25:22)  all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;

(Jeremiah 25:23)  Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

(Jeremiah 25:24)  all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

(Jeremiah 25:25)  all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;

(Jeremiah 25:26)  all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.

(Jeremiah 25:27)  "Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.'

(Jeremiah 25:28)  "And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!

(Jeremiah 25:29)  For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of hosts.'

(Jeremiah 25:30)  "You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "'The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

(Jeremiah 25:31)  The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'

(Jeremiah 25:32)  "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!

(Jeremiah 25:33)  "And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

(Jeremiah 25:34)  "Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

(Jeremiah 25:35)  No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock.

(Jeremiah 25:36)  A voice--the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is laying waste their pasture,

(Jeremiah 25:37)  and the peaceful folds are devastated because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 25:38)  Like a lion he has left his lair, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger."

In chapter 26 of Jeremiah the prophet is again delivering a message to the people urging repentance to avoid some of the judgment but again the people won’t hear the message from Jeremiah and want to kill him because of the message but other people persuade them not to kill them, reminding them that Hezekiah heard such messages urging repentance of sin and actually repented, so the Lord spared him as a result of his repentance

(Jeremiah 26:1)  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:

(Jeremiah 26:2)  "Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.

(Jeremiah 26:3)  It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.

(Jeremiah 26:4)  You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,

(Jeremiah 26:5)  and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not listened,

(Jeremiah 26:6)  then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"

(Jeremiah 26:7)  The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 26:8)  And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, "You shall die!

(Jeremiah 26:9)  Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, 'This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 26:10)  When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 26:11)  Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."

(Jeremiah 26:12)  Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, "The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

(Jeremiah 26:13)  Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.

(Jeremiah 26:14)  But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you.

(Jeremiah 26:15)  Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

(Jeremiah 26:16)  Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

(Jeremiah 26:17)  And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying,

(Jeremiah 26:18)  "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "'Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'

(Jeremiah 26:19)  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves."

(Jeremiah 26:20)  There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.

(Jeremiah 26:21)  And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.

(Jeremiah 26:22)  Then King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, Elnathan the son of Achbor and others with him,

(Jeremiah 26:23)  and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

(Jeremiah 26:24)  But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.

In Jeremiah chapter 27 the word again is given to serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who is given all of the lands and whoever refuses to will be severely punished and is also told to give Zedekiah the same message and all are told to ignore the messages of the false prophets, as well

(Jeremiah 27:1)  In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.

(Jeremiah 27:2)  Thus the LORD said to me: "Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

(Jeremiah 27:3)  Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

(Jeremiah 27:4)  Give them this charge for their masters: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:

(Jeremiah 27:5)  "It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

(Jeremiah 27:6)  Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.

(Jeremiah 27:7)  All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

(Jeremiah 27:8)  "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.

(Jeremiah 27:9)  So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'

(Jeremiah 27:10)  For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

(Jeremiah 27:11)  But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD."'"

(Jeremiah 27:12)  To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live.

(Jeremiah 27:13)  Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

(Jeremiah 27:14)  Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.

(Jeremiah 27:15)  I have not sent them, declares the LORD, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you."

(Jeremiah 27:16)  Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, 'Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.

(Jeremiah 27:17)  Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

(Jeremiah 27:18)  If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

(Jeremiah 27:19)  For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

(Jeremiah 27:20)  which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem--

(Jeremiah 27:21)  thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

(Jeremiah 27:22)  They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place."

For the next group of chapters in the book of Jeremiah, covering chapters 28 through 36 which prophecy the length of captivity and also the restoration, rebuilding and blessing of the children of Israel afterwards,  please go to this link

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Jeremiah had the difficult job of prophesying in a very difficult and very evil time in Israel’s people when the people were becoming more backslidden and reprobate, and I see much the same things happening today as then, but in different ways. God wants all today to repent of wickedness as He did then, and will judge now all evil as He did then. The one thing we have now that Jeremiah’s people didn’t is the fact that Jesus did come and die for our sins, giving us a way to find forgiveness, eternal life, and most of all relationship with a God who truly loves us and is grieved by all evil, no matter where it comes from or how. His love is so great that He did send His only Son, Jesus to die for our sins so relationship can be restored, and there is nothing like a relationship with God, nothing can compare to it at all. I am now including a prayer which will invite Jesus into your heart and begin this wonderful relationship or even you can return to it through this prayer repenting of what may have separated you from Jesus. Please do pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours