season, yet would ye not obay, ye would not encline your eares to heare.
5 He sayde: Turne againe euery man from his euill way, and from your wic∣ked imaginations, and so shall ye dwell for euer in the lande that the Lord pro∣mised you and your forefathers.
6 And go not after straunge gods, serue them not, worship them not, and an∣ger me not with the workes of your owne handes, then wyll I not punishe you.
7 Neuerthelesse, ye woulde not heare [unspec B] me saith the Lorde, but haue prouo∣ked me to anger with the workes of your handes, to your great harme.
8 Wherefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Because ye haue not hearke∣ned vnto my worde,
9 Lo, I wyll sende out and call for all the people that dwell in the north saith the Lorde, and wyll prepare Na∣buchodonozar the kyng of Babylon my seruaunt, and wyll bryng them vp∣pon this lande, and vpon all that dwell therin, and vpon all the people that are about them, and wyll vtterly roote them out: I wyll make them amased, a mockage, and a continuall desert.
10 Moreouer, I wyll take from them the voyce of gladnesse and solace, the voyce of the bridegrome and the bride, the noyse of the milstones, and the light of the cressets.
11 And this whole lande shall become a wildernesse and astonished: and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon threscore yeres and ten.
12 When the threscore and ten yeres are expired, I wil visite all the wickednesse of the kyng of Babylon and his people saith the Lorde, yea and the lande of the Chaldees, and wyll make it a perpe∣tuall wildernesse,
13 And wyll fulfill all my wordes vpon that lande whiche I haue deuised a∣gainst it: yea all that is written in this booke, whiche Ieremie hath propheci∣ed of all people.
14 So that they also shalbe subdued vn∣to diuers nations and great kynges, for I will recompence them according to their deedes and workes of their owne handes.
15 For thus hath the Lorde God of Is∣rael spoken vnto me: take this wine cup of indignation fro my hande, that [unspec C] thou mayest cause all people to whom I sende thee, for to drinke of it.
16 That when they haue drunken ther∣of, they may be madde and out of their wittes, when the sworde commeth that I wyll sende among them.
17 Then toke I the cuppe from the Lordes hande, and made all people to drinke thereof vnto whom the Lorde had sent me:
18 But first the citie of Hierusalem, and all the cities of Iuda, their kinges and princes, to make them desolate, amased, despised, and hissed at, and cursed, accor∣ding as it is come to passe this day:
19 Yea and Pharao the kyng of Egypt, his seruauntes, his princes, and his peo∣ple altogether one with another:
20 And all kinges of the lande of Hus, all kinges of the Philistines lande, Asca∣lon, Azah, Accaron, and the remnaunt of Asood,
21 The Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites,
22 All the kinges of Tyrus and Sidon, [unspec D] the kinges of the Isles that are be∣yonde the sea,
23 Dedan, Thema, Buz, and all them that dwell in the vttermost partes of the worlde,
24 All the kinges of Arabia, and [gene∣rally] all the kinges that dwell in the desert,
25 All the kinges of Zimri, al the kinges of Elam, all the kinges of the Medes,
26 All the kinges towarde the north, whether they be farre or nye, euery one against his neighbour, yea and all the kyngdomes that are vpon the whole earth: and the kyng of Sesach shall drinke also after them.
27 Therfore say thou vnto them, This is the commaundement of the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: Drinke and be drunken, spewe and fall, that ye neuer arise, and that thorowe the sworde whiche I wyll sende among you.
28 But yf they wyll not receaue they cup of thy hande, and drynke it, then tell them, thus doth the Lorde of hoastes threaten you, Drynke it you shall, and that shortly?
29 For lo, I begyn to plague the citie that my name is geuen vnto, thinke ye