Jeremiah 25:10-20

10 Moreover, ¹I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ²the grinding of the millstones and ³the light of the lamp.

11 ⁴This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ⁵these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ⁶seventy years.

12 Then after ⁷seventy years are completed, ⁸I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ⁹the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, ¹⁰making the land an everlasting waste.

13 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written ¹¹in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

14 ¹²For many nations ¹³and great kings shall make slaves even of them, ¹⁴and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."

The Cup of the Lord's Wrath

15 Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: ¹⁵"Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

16 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of ¹⁶the sword that I am sending among them."

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

18 ¹⁸Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ¹⁹to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

19 ²⁰Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,

20 and ²¹all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of ²²the land of Uz and all the kings of ²³the land of the Philistines (²⁴Ashkelon, ²⁵Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ²⁶Ashdod);

Jeremiah 25:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 25

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Judea by the king of Babylon; and also of Babylon itself, after the Jews' captivity of seventy years; and likewise of all the nations round about. The date of this prophecy is in Jer 25:1; when the prophet puts the Jews in mind of the prophecies that had been delivered unto them by himself and others, for some years past, without effect, Jer 25:2-7; wherefore they are threatened with the king of Babylon, that he should come against them, and strip them of all their desirable things; make their land desolate, and them captives for seventy years, Jer 25:8-11; at the expiration of which he in his turn shall be punished, and the land of Chaldea laid waste, and become subject to other nations and kings, Jer 25:12-14; and by a cup of wine given to all the nations round about, is signified the utter ruin of them, and who are particularly mentioned by name, Jer 25:15-26; which is confirmed by beginning with the city of Jerusalem, and the destruction of that, Jer 25:27-29; wherefore the prophet is bid to prophesy against them, and to declare the Lord's controversy with them, and that there should be a slaughter of them from one end of the earth to the other, Jer 25:30-33; upon which the shepherds, kings, and rulers of them, are called to lamentation and howling, Jer 25:34-38.

Cross References

• 1. See Jeremiah 7:34
• 2. Ecclesiastes 12:4; Revelation 18:22
• 3. Revelation 18:23
• 4. [See ver. 9 above]
• 5. [Jeremiah 28:14]; See Jeremiah 27:3-6
• 6. 2 Chronicles 36:21, 22; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 9:2; [Isaiah 23:15]
• 7. [See ver. 11 above]
• 8. Jeremiah 51:24, 26, 62; Isaiah 13:19
• 9. Jeremiah 51:24, 26, 62; Isaiah 13:19
• 10. Jeremiah 51:24, 26, 62; Isaiah 13:19
• 11. See Jeremiah 46 - 51
• 12. Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:9, 41; Jeremiah 51:27, 28
• 13. Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:9, 41; Jeremiah 51:27, 28
• 14. Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 51:6, 24
• 15. Jeremiah 49:12; Jeremiah 51:7; Job 21:20; Psalms 60:3; Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 51:17; Lamentations 4:21; Revelation 14:10
• 16. [Jeremiah 47:6]
• 17. [Isaiah 51:22, 23]
• 18. [Zechariah 12:2]
• 19. See Jeremiah 18:16
• 20. Jeremiah 46:25
• 21. Jeremiah 50:37; [Exodus 12:38; Ezekiel 30:5]
• 22. Job 1:1; Lamentations 4:21
• 23. Jeremiah 47:1, 4, 5
• 24. Jeremiah 47:1, 4, 5
• 25. Jeremiah 47:1, 4, 5
• 26. [Isaiah 20:1]