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Jeremiah 25:16

Judgment

14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

17 Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
KJV
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
WEB
They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
ASV
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
DARBY
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
BLB
And they will drink [it] and stagger about and go raving from the face of the sword that I am sending among them.
ÅB
Og de skal drikke og rave og te seg som rasende for det sverd jeg sender iblant dem.
OTB
Når de drikker det, vil de vakle og bli gale på grunn av sverdet jeg sender blant dem."
B1930
Og de skal drikke og rave og te sig som rasende for det sverd jeg sender iblandt dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 51:7

    Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

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  • Nahum 3:11

    Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

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  • Revelation 18:3

    For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

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  • Jeremiah 25:27

    Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

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  • Revelation 14:10

    The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

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  • Ezekiel 23:32–34

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

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  • Revelation 16:9–11

    And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

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  • Jeremiah 51:39

    In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

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