Jeremiah 25-27

Seventy Years of Captivity

Jer 25:11 LSB - [11] 'This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Punishment Against Babylon

Jer 25:17 LSB - [17] Then I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and made all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me drink it:

Jer 1:5 LSB - [5] "Before I formed you in the innermost parts I knew you, And before you came out from the womb I set you apart; I have given you as a prophet to the nations."

 

The Words of Yahweh Against Judah

Jer 26:2-3 LSB - 

[2] "Thus says Yahweh, 'Stand in the court of the house of Yahweh, and you shall speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship [in] the house of Yahweh all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not take away a word! 

[3] 'Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil which I am devising to bring against them because of the evil of their deeds.'

Plot to Murder Jeremiah

Jeremiah Spared from Death

The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar

Jer 27:8 LSB - [8] "And it will be, [that] the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not 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 Yahweh, "until I have brought it to an end by his hand.