Jeremiah 25:2-4

Contemporary English Version

Seventy Years of Exile

25 ^1-2 (A) In the fourth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah,^[a] which was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar^[b] was king of Babylonia, the Lord told me to speak to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. So I told them:

³ For 23 years now, ever since the thirteenth year that Josiah^[c] was king, I have been telling you what the Lord has told me. But you have not listened.

⁴ The Lord has sent prophets to you time after time, but you refused to listen.