Jeremiah 25:16

16 When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I'm going to send them.

Jeremiah 25:16 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 25:16

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad
The judgments foretold shall come upon them, whether they will or not; which will have such effects upon them, as intoxicating liquor has on drunken persons; make them shake and tremble, and reel to and fro, and toss and tumble about, and behave like madmen: because of the sword that I will send among them;
this explains what is meant by the wine cup of fury, the sword of a foreign enemy that shall enter among them and destroy; and which would make them tremble, and be at their wits' end, like drunken and mad men.

Jeremiah 25:16 In-Context

14 Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the people of Babylon, and I will pay them back for what they have done."

15 This is what the LORD God of Israel said to me: Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I'm sending you drink from it.

16 When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I'm going to send them.

17 So I took the cup from the LORD's hand. I made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink from it:

18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.