Jeremiah 25:6-26

6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”

7 “But you did not listen to me,” declares the LORD, “and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.”

8 Therefore the LORD Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words,

9 I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the LORD, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a] them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.

10 I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,^[b] for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.

13 I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.

14 They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

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^[c] —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^[d] ;

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^[e] will drink it too.

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Jeremiah 25:6-26 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Cross References 61

1. S Exodus 20:3; S Deuteronomy 8:19
2. Jeremiah 30:14; Jeremiah 32:35; Jeremiah 44:5
3. Deuteronomy 32:21
4. 2 Kings 17:20; 2 Kings 21:15
5. Isaiah 13:3-5
6. S Isaiah 14:31; Jeremiah 1:15
7. S Isaiah 41:2; Jeremiah 27:6
8. S 2 Chronicles 36:6
9. S Numbers 21:2
10. S 2 Chronicles 29:8; Jeremiah 18:16
11. S Jeremiah 19:8; S Jeremiah 20:4; Ezekiel 12:20
12. S Isaiah 24:8; Ezekiel 26:13
13. Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 33:11
14. Ecclesiastes 12:3-4
15. S Job 18:5; Lamentations 5:15; Revelation 18:22-23
16. S Leviticus 26:31,32; Jeremiah 4:26-27; Jeremiah 12:11-12
17. Jeremiah 28:14
18. S 2 Chronicles 36:21
19. Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 29:10
20. S Genesis 10:10; S Psalms 137:8
21. S Isaiah 13:19-22; Isaiah 14:22-23
22. S Isaiah 30:8
23. Isaiah 14:6; Jeremiah 27:7
24. Jeremiah 50:9; Jeremiah 51:27-28
25. S Deuteronomy 32:41; S Job 21:19; S Jeremiah 51:6
26. S Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 49:12; Lamentations 4:21; Ezekiel 23:31; Psalms 75:8; Revelation 14:10
27. Jeremiah 1:5
28. ver 26
29. S Psalms 60:3; Nahum 3:11
30. Jeremiah 51:7
31. ver 27-29
32. Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 27:3
33. S Jeremiah 13:13
34. S Job 12:19
35. S 2 Chronicles 29:8
36. S Jeremiah 24:9
37. S Genesis 19:13; Jeremiah 44:22
38. S 2 Kings 18:21
39. Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 20:3; Jeremiah 44:30; Ezekiel 29:2
40. S Genesis 10:23; Job 1:1
41. S Joshua 13:3; S 2 Chronicles 26:6; S 2 Chronicles 28:18; Zephaniah 2:4-7
42. Jeremiah 47:5; Amos 1:7-8
43. S Genesis 10:19
44. S Genesis 25:30
45. S Genesis 19:37; S Deuteronomy 23:6
46. S Genesis 19:38; Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 49:1
47. S Joshua 19:29
48. S Genesis 10:15; Jeremiah 47:4
49. Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 66:20; Jeremiah 31:10; Ezekiel 27:15; Ezekiel 39:6; Daniel 11:18
50. S Genesis 25:3
51. S Genesis 25:15
52. S Ge 2 2:21
53. Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 49:32
54. S 2 Chronicles 9:14
55. ver 20
56. Genesis 25:2
57. S Genesis 10:22
58. S Isaiah 21:2
59. ver 9; Jeremiah 50:3,9; Jeremiah 51:11,48
60. Isaiah 23:17
61. Jeremiah 51:41

Footnotes 5

[a]. The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
[b]. Or "Chaldeans"
[c]. That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed
[d]. Or "who clip the hair by their foreheads"
[e]. "Sheshak" is a cryptogram for Babylon.