The word that came to Jeremiah— This chapter contains a new discourse, different from that which precedes and follows it. The prophesy that it contains is prior in time to that in the former chapter, and posterior to that in the 26th. At the commencement of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah denounced the evils which this prince was to bring upon Judah and the neighbouring states. The prophet reproves the Jews for their disregard of the divine calls to repentance; Jeremiah 25:1-7. He foretells their subjugation, together with that of the neighbouring nations, to the king of Babylon for seventy years, and the fall of the Babylonish empire at that period; Jeremiah 25:8-14. The same is foreshewn under the symbol of the cup of God's wrath, with which Jeremiah is sent to all the nations, which are enumerated at large, to make them drink of it to their utter subversion; Jeremiah 25:15-29. And the like prophesy is the third time repeated in a strain of sublime and poetic imagery; Jeremiah 25:30—to the end.
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Jeremiah 25:1
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;