Yaram'Yahu (Jeremiah) — 25

Seventy Years of Captivity

1 This message for all the people of Yahudah came to Yaramyahu from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH during the fourth year of Yahuiakim’s reign over Yahudah, This was the year when King Nabuchadnazzar of Babylun began his reign.

2 Yaramyahu the Nabym said to all the people in Yahudah and Yahushalam, 

3 “For the past twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of the reign of Yusyahu son of Amun, king of Yahudah, until now, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has been giving me His messages, I have faithfully passed them on to you, but you have not listened.

4 “Again and again 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has sent you His servants, the Nabyms, but you have not listened or even paid attention. 

5 Each time the message was this: ‘Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing, Only then will I let you live in this land that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave to you and your ancestors forever. 

6 Do not provoke my anger by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, Then I will not harm you.’

7 “But you would not listen to me,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, “You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer. 

8 Now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut Dabar: Because you have not listened to me, 

9 I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nabuchadnazzar of Babylun, whom I have appointed as my servant, I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the surrounding nations, I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and ruin forever. 

10 I will take away your happy singing and laughter, the joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard, Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out. 

11 This entire land will become a desolate wasteland, Yashar'AL and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylun for seventy years.

12 “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylun and his people for their sins, says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, “I will make the country of the Babylunians a wasteland forever. 

13 I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book, all the penalties announced by Yaramyahu against the nations. 

14 Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylunians, just as they enslaved my people, I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”

The Cup of YAHUAH’s Anger

15 This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL Dabar to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. 

16 When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”

17 So I took the cup of anger from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH and made all the nations drink from it, every nation to which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH sent me. 

18 I went to Yahushalam and the other towns of Yahudah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup, From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing. 

19 I gave the cup to Phar'uh, king of Mitzraym, his attendants, his officials, and all his people, 

20 along with all the foreigners living in that land, I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkalun, Gaza, Akrun, and what remains of Ashdud. 

21 Then I gave the cup to the nations of Adum, Muab, and Ammun, 

22 and the kings of Tyra and Sidun, and the kings of the regions across the sea. 

23 I gave it to Dadan, Tama, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places. 

24 I gave it to the kings of Arabia, the kings of the nomadic tribes of the desert, 

25 and to the kings of Zimri, Alam, and Madia. 

26 And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other, all the kingdoms of the world, And finally, the king of Babylun himself drank from the cup of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s anger.

27 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to me, “Now tell them, ‘This is what  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL, Dabar: Drink from this cup of my anger. Get drunk and vomit; fall to rise no more, for I am sending terrible wars against you.’ 

28 And if they refuse to accept the cup, tell them, ‘𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut Dabar: You have no choice but to drink from it. 

29 I have begun to punish Yahushalam, the city that bears my Name, now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster, I will call for war against all the nations of the Arath, I 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut have spoken!’

30 “Now prophesy all these things, and say to them, ‘𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will roar against his own land from his Qadash dwelling in Shamaym, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will shout like those who tread grapes; 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will shout against everyone on Arath.

31 The shout of judgment will reach the ends of the Arath, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will bring His case against all the nations, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will judge all the people of the Arath, slaughtering the wicked with the sword, I 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH have spoken!

32 This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  Tsaba'ut Dabar, Look! Disaster will fall upon nation after nation! a great whirlwind of fury is rising from the most distant corners of the Arath!”

33 In that day those 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has slaughtered will fill the Arath from one end to the other, no one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them, they will be scattered on the ground like manure.

34 Weep and moan, you evil shepherds! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! The time of your slaughter has arrived, you will fall and shatter like a fragile vase.

35 You will find no place to hide; there will be no way to escape.

36 Listen to the frantic cries of the shepherds, the leaders of the flock are wailing in despair, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is ruining their pastures.

37 Shalum meadows will be turned into a wasteland by 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s fierce anger.

38 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has left His den like a strong lion seeking its prey, and their land will be made desolate by the sword of the enemy and the fierce and of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.