For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 25:14 in context
Jeremiah 25:11–17
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This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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“It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says the LORD, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.
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I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
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For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
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For the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
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They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
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Then I took the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:
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