Jeremiah 25:1-7

Expanded Bible

A Summary of Jeremiah’s Preaching

25 This is the message that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah. It came in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah and the first year Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon. ² This is the message Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and Jerusalem:

³ The Lord has spoken his word to me again and again for these past twenty-three years. I have been a prophet since the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah. I have spoken messages from the Lord to you from that time until today, but you have not listened.

⁴ The Lord has sent all his servants the prophets [7:25; 2 Kin. 17:13] to you over and over again, but you have not listened or ·paid any attention [^Linclined/bent your ear] to them. ⁵ Those prophets have said, “·Stop [Turn from/Repent of] your evil ways. ·Stop doing [Turn from/Repent of] what is wrong so you can stay in the land that the Lord gave to you and your ·ancestors [fathers] to live in forever. ⁶ Don’t ·follow [^Lgo after] other gods to serve them or to ·worship [bow down to] them. Don’t make me, the Lord, angry by the work of your own hands [^Cidols], or I will ·punish [harm] you.”

⁷ “But you [^Cpeople of Judah] did not listen to me,” says the Lord. “You made me angry by the work of your own hands [^Cidols], so I ·punished [harmed] you.”