Chapter XXV · Location 25 of 52
Chapter 25 · Open to readFrom Jeremias · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)
What does Jeremias Chapter 25 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?
Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary
Twenty-three years of unheeded word precede seventy-year servitude. The cup list includes Sesac with separate edition identification. Unburied slain and shepherd lament conclude the oracle.
Chapter breakdown
Jeremias 25 dates the address to Joakim's fourth and Nabuchodonosor's first year. Twenty-three years from Josias's thirteenth year bring unheeded word and early speaking. Unheard servant prophets called for return from wicked ways and devices, remaining in ancestral land, forsaking gods and provoking works. Northern kindreds and Nabuchodonosor, called servant, bring destruction and hissing to land and neighboring nations. The edition explains his instrumental role despite wickedness. Mirth, bridal voices, mill and lamp cease; nations serve Babylon seventy years. Then Babylon and Chaldean land are punished for iniquity, with perpetual desolation and repayment by deeds. The edition glosses punish as visit upon.
Jeremias takes the commanded wine cup of fury and presents it to nations, whose trouble and madness accompany sword. The list names Jerusalem and Juda, Pharao and Egypt, Ausitis, Philistines with Ascalon, Gaza, Accaron and remnant Azotus, Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Sidon and beyond-sea islands, Dedan, Thema, Buz and round-cut hair, Arabia and western desert kings, Zambri, Elam, Medes, northern kings far and near, every kingdom and finally Sesac. The edition identifies Sesac with Babylon. Refusal cannot exempt them when evil begins in the name-bearing city. This sequence is not dated as necessarily after the seventy years.
The Lord roars from holy habitation upon the place of beauty with grape-treader-like shouting, judging nations and all flesh. Evil passes nation to nation with a great whirlwind; slain lie unlamented, ungathered and unburied as dung. Shepherds and leaders howl with ashes, falling like precious vessels without escape. Wasted pastures and silent peace fields accompany fierce anger, lion leaving covert and dove's wrath. The edition tentatively reports a dove standard and offers oppressor and swift-flight interpretations; no certain archaeological assertion or autumn season is added.
The story inside
Opening: Twenty-three years of unheeded word precede seventy-year servitude. Development: The cup list includes Sesac with separate edition identification. Conclusion: Unburied slain and shepherd lament conclude the oracle.
Lessons worth keeping
- 1Twenty-three years of unheeded word precede seventy-year servitude.
- 2The cup list includes Sesac with separate edition identification.
- 3Unburied slain and shepherd lament conclude the oracle.
Test your recall
Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?
Source edition and notes
Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.
Lines 86544–86545
25:11. And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Lines 86562–86564
25:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee.
