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Jeremiah 25:13

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I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

KJV

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

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This verse in Jeremiah 25

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
The Septuagint places a full stop after “book,” and take the rest as a title “what Jeremiah prophesied against the nations,” which series there immediately follows. In the Masoretic Text, this series is deferred to the end Jer. 46–49, and with Jer. 50–51, forms one entire series. Other reasons make it probable that the Septuagint has preserved for us an earlier text, in which all direct mention of the king of Babylon is omitted and the 70 years are given as the duration of Judah’s captivity, and not of the Babylonian empire.

This site's exposition

But when seventy years are complete

on Jeremiah 25:12-14

The seventy years that measure Judah's servitude measure Babylon's reprieve: “when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation.” Verse 14 repays Babylon in kind, since “many nations and great kings will enslave them.”

This site's exposition

all that is written in this book

The book is the written record of the words of Jeremiah, and chapter 36 dates his first scroll to this fourth year. Barnes notes the Greek Bible ends the sentence after book and sets the oracles against the nations right here. The Hebrew keeps them for chapters 46 to 51.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 11 and following) And these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. And when seventy years have been completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquities, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an eternal wasteland. And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Upon this prophecy of its being the author of the ruin of so many nations it is very fitly repeated here again. What should be the effect of it. The desolations which the sword should make in all these kingdoms are represented by the consequences of excessive drinking (

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And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

I rather incline to the former, because then these nations began to serve the king of Babylon, and because usually God has taken the earliest time from which to reckon the accomplishment of a promise of mercy, as will appear in computing the 400 years' servitude in Egypt.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

all . . . written in this book, which Jeremiah . . . prophesied against all . . . nations--It follows from this, that the prophecies against foreign nations (forty-sixth through fifty-first chapters) must have been already written. Hence the Septuagint inserts here those prophecies.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

For.. will enslave them Like ‘For.. shall enslave them,’ i.e., shall enslave the people of Babylon.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 25:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהֵֽבֵאתִי֙and I will bring

    vehevetiH935 →2568 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֣רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַהִ֔יא<the> that

    hahi'H1931 →1879 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • דְּבָרַ֖יwords my

    devaraiH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • דִּבַּ֣רְתִּיI spoke

    dibartiH1696 →1141 times

  • עָלֶ֑יהָon it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • אֵ֤ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַכָּתוּב֙<the> [thing] written

    hakatuvH3789 →224 times

  • בַּסֵּ֣פֶרin the book

    baseferH5612 →186 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • נִבָּ֥אhe prophesied

    niba'H5012 →115 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֖הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַגּוֹיִֽם׃the nations

    hagoyimH1471 →561 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 1:5

    “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

    it leads to

    • Psalms 139:16

      Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

    • Isaiah 49:1

      Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

    • Galatians 1:15–16

      But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

    • Psalms 71:5–6

      For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

    • Romans 8:29

      For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 1:10

    See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 31:28

      Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

    • 2 Corinthians 10:4–5

      The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

    • Isaiah 44:26–28

      who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I…

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 25 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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