The word that came to Yirmeyahu concerning all the people of Yehuda in the fourth year of Yehoyaqim the son of Yoshiyyahu king of Yehuda, that was the first year of Nevukhadreżżar, king of Bavel;

which Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke to all the people of Yehuda, and to all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying,

From the thirteenth year of Yoshiyyahu, the son of Amon king of Yehuda, and until this day, these twenty three years, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you, from morning till night; but you have not hearkened.

And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, sending them from morning till night; but you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

They said, Turn back now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

and do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

Yet you have not hearkened to me, says the Lord; that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts; Because you have not heard my words,

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nevukhadreżżar the king of Bavel, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual ruins.

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.

And this whole land shall be a ruin, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Bavel seventy years.

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Bavel, and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Kasdim, and will make it everlasting desolation.

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

For many nations and great kings shall enslave them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

For thus says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el to me; Take this wine cup of fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

And they shall drink, and stagger, and be crazed, because of the sword that I will send among them.

Then I took the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:

namely, Yerushalayim, and the cities of Yehuda, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a ruin, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

Par῾o king of Miżrayim, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

and all the ῾Erev, and all the kings of the land of ῾Uż, and all the kings of the land of Pelishtim, and Ashqelon, and ῾Azza, and ῾Eqron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

Edom, and Mo᾽av, and the children of ῾Ammon,

and all the kings of Żor, and all the kings of Żidon, and the kings of island which is beyond the sea,

Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off,

and all the kings of ῾Arav, and all the kings of the ῾Erev that dwell in the desert,

and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of ῾Elam, and all the kings of the Maday,

and all the kings of the north both far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world, who are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshakh shall drink after them.

Therefore thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fail, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts; You shall certainly drink.

For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should you go utterly unpunished? you shall not go unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of hosts.

Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar because of his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he will enter into judgment with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, says the Lord.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great stormwind shall be raised up from the far ends of the earth.

And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

Howl, shepherds, and cry; and roll yourselves in dust, you chief of the flock: for the days are altogether come about for you to be slaughtered and dispersed, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the chief of the flock to escape.

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the chief of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord has ruined their pasture.

And the peaceable pastures are silent because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

He has forsaken his covert, like the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.