20 “Go up to Lebanon and cry out,(A)
    let your voice be heard in Bashan,(B)
cry out from Abarim,(C)
    for all your allies(D) are crushed.

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Joshua to Succeed Moses

12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain(A) in the Abarim Range(B) and see the land(C) I have given the Israelites.(D)

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22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stir up your lovers(A) against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side(B)

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Bitterly she weeps(A) at night,
    tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers(B)
    there is no one to comfort her.
All her friends have betrayed(C) her;
    they have become her enemies.(D)

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“Therefore I delivered her into the hands(A) of her lovers,(B) the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.(C)

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19 “I called to my allies(A)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished(B) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.

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13 There is no one to plead your cause,(A)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing(B) for you.
14 All your allies(C) have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy(D) would
    and punished you as would the cruel,(E)
because your guilt is so great
    and your sins(F) so many.
15 Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?(G)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.(H)

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17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent(A) me drink it: 18 Jerusalem(B) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin(C) and an object of horror and scorn,(D) a curse[a](E)—as they are today;(F) 19 Pharaoh king(G) of Egypt,(H) his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20 and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;(I) all the kings of the Philistines(J) (those of Ashkelon,(K) Gaza,(L) Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); 21 Edom,(M) Moab(N) and Ammon;(O) 22 all the kings of Tyre(P) and Sidon;(Q) the kings of the coastlands(R) across the sea; 23 Dedan,(S) Tema,(T) Buz(U) and all who are in distant places[b];(V) 24 all the kings of Arabia(W) and all the kings of the foreign people(X) who live in the wilderness; 25 all the kings of Zimri,(Y) Elam(Z) and Media;(AA) 26 and all the kings of the north,(AB) near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms(AC) on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak[c](AD) will drink it too.

27 “Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk(AE) and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword(AF) I will send among you.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed
  2. Jeremiah 25:23 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads
  3. Jeremiah 25:26 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.

I will summon(A) all the peoples of the north(B) and my servant(C) Nebuchadnezzar(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,(F) and an everlasting ruin.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

22 The wind(A) will drive all your shepherds(B) away,
    and your allies(C) will go into exile.
Then you will be ashamed and disgraced(D)
    because of all your wickedness.

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30 What are you doing,(A) you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels(B) of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?(C)
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers(D) despise you;
    they want to kill you.(E)

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36 Why do you go about so much,
    changing(A) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt(B)
    as you were by Assyria.
37 You will also leave that place
    with your hands on your head,(C)
for the Lord has rejected those you trust;
    you will not be helped(D) by them.

“If a man divorces(E) his wife
    and she leaves him and marries another man,
should he return to her again?
    Would not the land be completely defiled?(F)
But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers(G)
    would you now return to me?”(H)
declares the Lord.

Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt

31 Woe(A) to those who go down to Egypt(B) for help,
    who rely on horses,(C)
who trust in the multitude of their chariots(D)
    and in the great strength of their horsemen,
but do not look to the Holy One(E) of Israel,
    or seek help from the Lord.(F)
Yet he too is wise(G) and can bring disaster;(H)
    he does not take back his words.(I)
He will rise up against that wicked nation,(J)
    against those who help evildoers.
But the Egyptians(K) are mere mortals and not God;(L)
    their horses(M) are flesh and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,(N)
    those who help will stumble,
    those who are helped(O) will fall;
    all will perish together.(P)

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Woe to the Obstinate Nation

30 “Woe(A) to the obstinate children,”(B)
    declares the Lord,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
    forming an alliance,(C) but not by my Spirit,
    heaping sin upon sin;
who go down to Egypt(D)
    without consulting(E) me;
who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection,(F)
    to Egypt’s shade for refuge.(G)
But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame,
    Egypt’s shade(H) will bring you disgrace.(I)
Though they have officials in Zoan(J)
    and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
everyone will be put to shame
    because of a people(K) useless(L) to them,
who bring neither help(M) nor advantage,
    but only shame and disgrace.(N)

A prophecy(O) concerning the animals of the Negev:(P)

Through a land of hardship and distress,(Q)
    of lions(R) and lionesses,
    of adders and darting snakes,(S)
the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’(T) backs,
    their treasures(U) on the humps of camels,
to that unprofitable nation,
    to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.(V)
Therefore I call her
    Rahab(W) the Do-Nothing.

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Those who trusted(A) in Cush(B) and boasted in Egypt(C) will be dismayed and put to shame.(D) In that day(E) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(F) to those we relied on,(G) those we fled to for help(H) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(I)’”

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The king of Egypt(A) did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon(B) had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

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49 “Go up into the Abarim(A) Range to Mount Nebo(B) in Moab, across from Jericho,(C) and view Canaan,(D) the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

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