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PROPHETS
45:1-5; 25:15-27
until all of you are dead. Only a small number will escape death and re
turn to Judah from Egypt. Then all those who came to Egypt will find out
whose words are true—mine or theirs!
“‘And this is the proof I give you,’ says the Lord, ‘that all I have threat
ened will happen to you and that I will punish you here.’ This is what the
Lord says: ‘I will turn Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, over to his enemies
who want to kill him, just as I turned King Zedekiah of Judah over to
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.’”
The prophet Jeremiah gave a message to Baruch son of Neriah in the fourth
year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, after Baruch had written down
everything Jeremiah had dictated to him. He said, “This is what the Lord,
the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: You have said, ‘I am overwhelmed
with trouble! Haven’t I had enough pain already? And now the Lord has
added more! I am worn out from sighing and can find no rest.’
“Baruch, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will destroy this nation that I
built. I will uproot what I planted. Are you seeking great things for your
self? Don’t do it! I will bring great disaster upon all these people; but I will
give you your life as a reward wherever you go. I, the Lord, have spoken!’”
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said 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. When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed
by the warfare I will send against them.”
So I took the cup of anger from the Lord and made all the nations drink
from it—every nation to which the Lord sent me. I went to Jerusalem
and the other towns of Judah, 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. I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
his attendants, his officials, and all his people, 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 Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains
of Ashdod. Then I gave the cup to the nations of Edom, Moab, and Am
mon, and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across
the sea. I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in
distant places. I gave it to the kings of Arabia, the kings of the nomadic
tribes of the desert, and to the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media. And I
gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the
