Jeremiah 25:16
They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send amongst them.”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:12“Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’
Jeremiah 25:27“You shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send amongst you.”’
Jeremiah 48:26“Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.
Jeremiah 51:39When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the LORD.
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.
Nahum 3:11You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 25:16-30
The Cup of Wrath; General Desolation. ( b. c. 607.) 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. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 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: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to… Read the whole commentary →