The Hebrew Prophets

And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.

And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea.

And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut round.

And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that dwell in the desert.

And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:

And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them.

And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.

And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall drink:

For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and thou shalt say to them: I The Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter his voice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall roar upon the place of his beauty: the shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall be given out against all the inhabitants of the earth.

The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with all flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of the earth.

And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon the face of the earth.

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels.

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to save themselves.

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures.

And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid waste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, came this word from the Lord, saying:

Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to speak unto them: leave not out one word.

If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them for the wickedness of their doings.

And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:

To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened:

I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.