Jeremiah 25:15-33

The Cup of God’s Wrath

15 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
16 When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.”
17 So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it:
18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse[a] —as they are today;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people,
20 and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);
21 Edom, Moab and Ammon;
22 all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
23 Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who are in distant places[b] ;
24 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the wilderness;
25 all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media;
26 and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak[c] will drink it too.
27 “Then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.’
28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: You must drink it!
29 See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the LORD Almighty.’
30 “Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them: “ ‘The LORD will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth.
31 The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD will bring charges against the nations; he will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,’ ” declares the LORD.
32 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Look! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”
33 At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere—from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

Cross References 61

  • 1. S Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 49:12; Lamentations 4:21; Ezekiel 23:31; Psalms 75:8; Revelation 14:10
  • 2. Jeremiah 1:5
  • 3. ver 26
  • 4. S Psalms 60:3; Nahum 3:11
  • 5. Jeremiah 51:7
  • 6. ver 27-29
  • 7. Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 27:3
  • 8. S Jeremiah 13:13
  • 9. S Job 12:19
  • 10. S 2 Chronicles 29:8
  • 11. S Jeremiah 24:9
  • 12. S Genesis 19:13; Jeremiah 44:22
  • 13. S 2 Kings 18:21
  • 14. Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 20:3; Jeremiah 44:30; Ezekiel 29:2
  • 15. S Genesis 10:23; Job 1:1
  • 16. S Joshua 13:3; S 2 Chronicles 26:6; S 2 Chronicles 28:18; Zephaniah 2:4-7
  • 17. Jeremiah 47:5; Amos 1:7-8
  • 18. S Genesis 10:19
  • 19. S Genesis 25:30
  • 20. S Genesis 19:37; S Deuteronomy 23:6
  • 21. S Genesis 19:38; Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 49:1
  • 22. S Joshua 19:29
  • 23. S Genesis 10:15; Jeremiah 47:4
  • 24. Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 66:20; Jeremiah 31:10; Ezekiel 27:15; Ezekiel 39:6; Daniel 11:18
  • 25. S Genesis 25:3
  • 26. S Genesis 25:15
  • 27. S Ge 2 2:21
  • 28. Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 49:32
  • 29. S 2 Chronicles 9:14
  • 30. ver 20
  • 31. Genesis 25:2
  • 32. S Genesis 10:22
  • 33. S Isaiah 21:2
  • 34. ver 9; Jeremiah 50:3,9; Jeremiah 51:11,48
  • 35. Isaiah 23:17
  • 36. Jeremiah 51:41
  • 37. ver 16,28; S Isaiah 29:9; S Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 51:57; Ezekiel 23:32-34; Nahum 3:18; Habakkuk 2:16
  • 38. S Jeremiah 12:12; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 21:4
  • 39. S Isaiah 51:23
  • 40. S 2 Samuel 5:7; Isaiah 10:12; Jeremiah 13:12-14; Jeremiah 39:1
  • 41. S Deuteronomy 28:10; S Isaiah 37:17; 1 Peter 4:17
  • 42. S Proverbs 11:31
  • 43. ver 27
  • 44. ver 30-31; Isaiah 34:2
  • 45. S Isaiah 24:1
  • 46. Isaiah 16:10; S Isaiah 42:13
  • 47. S Psalms 46:6; Joel 3:16; Amos 1:2
  • 48. S Psalms 68:5
  • 49. Isaiah 63:3; Joel 3:13; Revelation 14:19-20
  • 50. Jeremiah 23:19
  • 51. S Jeremiah 2:9; Hosea 4:1; Joel 3:2; Micah 6:2
  • 52. S 1 Samuel 12:7; S Jeremiah 2:35; S Ezekiel 36:5
  • 53. S ver 29
  • 54. S Jeremiah 15:9
  • 55. S Isaiah 30:25
  • 56. Isaiah 34:2
  • 57. S Jeremiah 23:19
  • 58. S Deuteronomy 28:49
  • 59. Isaiah 66:16; Ezekiel 39:17-20
  • 60. S Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 16:4
  • 61. S Psalms 79:3

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed
  • [b]. Or "who clip the hair by their foreheads"
  • [c]. "Sheshak" is a cryptogram for Babylon.
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