Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 25:16 in other translations
| BSB | And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.” |
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| 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. |
| YLT | And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending 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. |
| BBE | And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them. |
| Webster | And they shall drink, and be moved, and enraged, because of the sword that I will send among them. |
What does Jeremiah 25:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 25:15-29
The evil and the good events of life are often represented in Scripture as cups. Under this figure is represented the desolation then coming upon that part of the world, of which Nebuchadnezzar, who had just began to reign and act, was to be the instrument; but this destroying sword would come from the hand of God. The desolations the sword should make in all these kingdoms, are represented by the consequences of…
Jeremiah 25:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 25:16
- 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.
- Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
- 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. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
- 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.
- Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Revelation 14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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Context
- Jeremiah 25:15
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.
- Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
- Jeremiah 25:17
Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:
Jeremiah 25:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y beberán, y temblarán, y enloquecerán delante del cuchillo que yo envío entre ellos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et elles boiront et elles seront étourdies, et elles seront comme folles, à cause de l’épée que j’enverrai parmi elles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | damit sie trinken, und taumeln und rasen wegen des Schwertes, das ich unter sie sende. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et bibent, et turbabuntur et insanient a facie gladii quem ego mittam inter eos. |