I will even give them for a terrible plague to all the kingdoms of the earth, and for a reproach and for a proverb, for a common talk, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

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Behold, I will send and take to me all the [a]families of the North, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel my [b]servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations [c]round about, and will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and an hissing, and a continual desolation.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Chaldeans and all their power.
  2. Jeremiah 25:9 So the wicked and Satan himself are God’s servants, because he maketh them to serve him by constraint, and turneth that which they do of malice, to his honor and glory.
  3. Jeremiah 25:9 As the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others.

Then will I cut off Israel from the land, which I have given them, and the house which I have hallowed (A)for my Name, will I cast out of my sight, and Israel shall be a [a]proverb, and a common talk among all people.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:7 The world shall make of you a mocking stock for the vile contempt and abusing of God’s most liberal benefits.

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