Jeremiah 25:1-38

Subsection 8). Jeremiah Summarises His Ministry Before The People And After Declaring What Is To Come On Judah Proclaims The Judgment Of YHWH That Is Coming On All Nations (Jeremiah 25:1).

This final subsection of Section 1 commences with ‘The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah --' (Jeremiah 25:1), and contains Jeremiah's own brief summary, given to the people in a sermon, describing what has gone before during the previous twenty three years of his ministry. It [provides a suitable conclusion to the whole Section but is also in preparation for what is to follow. He warns them that because they have not listened to YHWH's voice the land must suffer for ‘seventy years' in subjection to Babylon, but he then goes on to bring out that YHWH's wrath will subsequently be visited on Babylon, and not only on them, but on ‘the whole world'. For YHWH will be dealing with all the nations in judgment, something which will be expanded on in Chapter s 46-51. There is at this stage no mention of restoration, (except as hinted at in the seventy year limit to Babylon's supremacy), and the chapter closes with a picture of the final desolation which is to come on Judah as a consequence of YHWH's anger.