Bible Chapter Summary
Jeremiah 25 Summary
Cup of Wrath and Seventy Years of Servitude
Jeremiah announces that for twenty-three years he has sent prophets warning the people to turn from evil and obey God, but they have not hearkened. God declares He will send Nebuchadrezzar, His servant, to destroy Judah and all surrounding nations, making them desolate and subject to Babylon for seventy years. Jeremiah is given a cup of God's fury to make all nations drink of it, symbolizing their coming judgment. The chapter details the judgment on various nations, promising that after seventy years God will punish Babylon itself and bring the nations' judgment upon them according to their deeds.
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Key verses
Jeremiah 25:11
“And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”
Jeremiah 25:15-16
“For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.”
Jeremiah 25:27-29
“Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”
Jeremiah 25:32
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.”
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