Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today; Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people; and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
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Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today; Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people; and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon; and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off; and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them.
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Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;
Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;
and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
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Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
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Then took I the cup of the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them an appalment, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
and all the mingled people; and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
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- Jeremiah 1:10 (vv17–18) Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and…
- Job 1:1 (v20) There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from…
- Isaiah 20:1 (v20) In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
- Jeremiah 25:28 (v17) It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely…
- Jeremiah 50:37 (v20) A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A…
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- Lamentations 4:21 (v20) Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will…
- Ezekiel 30:5 (v20) “ ‘ “Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the…
- Exodus 12:38 (v20) A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
- Psalms 60:3 (v18) You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
- Jeremiah 24:9 (v18) I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt…
- Jeremiah 25:24 (v20) and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
- Jeremiah 27:3 (v17) Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of…
- Jeremiah 44:22 (v18) Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed.…
- Jeremiah 46:1-28 (v17) Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt,…
- Jeremiah 46:2 (v19) Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of…
- Jeremiah 46:13-26 (v19) The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.…
- Jeremiah 47:1-7 (v20) Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise…
- Ezekiel 43:3 (v17) It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and…
- Nahum 3:8-10 (v19) Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was…
- Genesis 10:23 (v20) The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- Genesis 22:21 (v20) Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
- Joshua 6:18 (v18) But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so…
- 1 Samuel 6:17 (v20) These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon…
- 1 Kings 8:24 (v18) who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your…
- 2 Kings 22:19 (v18) because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its…
- 1 Chronicles 1:17 (v20) The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
- Ezra 9:7 (v18) Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been…
- Nehemiah 9:36 (v18) “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in…
- Nehemiah 13:23-27 (v20) In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; and their children spoke half in the speech of…
- Isaiah 51:17-22 (v18) Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of…
- Jeremiah 19:3-9 (v18) Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring…
- Jeremiah 21:6-10 (v18) I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence. Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will…
- Jeremiah 25:9 (v18) behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my…
- Jeremiah 25:11 (v18) This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 43:9-11 (v19) “Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the…
- Ezekiel 9:5-8 (v18) To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity. Kill utterly…
- Ezekiel 25:15-17 (v20) “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with…
- Ezekiel 29:1-21 (v19) In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face…
- Daniel 9:12 (v18) He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the…
- Amos 1:6-8 (v20) Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the…
- Amos 2:5 (v18) but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
- Amos 3:2 (v18) “I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
- Zephaniah 2:4-7 (v20) For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. Woe to the…
- Zechariah 9:5-7 (v20) Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king…
- 1 Peter 4:17 (v18) For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv17–20 The Prophet now adds that he obeyed God’s command;…
The Prophet now adds that he obeyed God’s command; for he had before often testified that he was constrained to perform his office, which he would have willingly not have done, if he was at liberty. But as he was bound to obey the divine call, it was evident that it was not his fault, and that he was unjustly charged by the people as the author of the evils denounced. We indeed know that the prophets incurred much ill-will and reproach from the refractory and the despisers of God, as though all their calamities were to be imputed to them. Jeremiah then says, that he took the cup and gave it to drink to all the nations: he intimates that he had no desire to do this, but that necessity was laid on him to perform his office. He then shews who these nations were, —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv18, 20 For now it beginneth and shall so continue till…
For now it beginneth and shall so continue till it be accomplished.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Jer 25:17 Then took I the cup at the…
Jer 25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Ver. 17. And made all drink,] viz., In vision, and by denunciation.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv17–20 That is, in the vision; for it cannot be…
That is, in the vision; for it cannot be thought that the Lord made the prophet to travel up and down to all the nations afterward named with a cup of wine in his hand.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand,....…
Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand,.... In a visionary way, and did as he commanded, and prophesied as he directed him. The prophet was obedient to the heavenly vision, as became him:
and made all the nations to drink, unto whom, the Lord had sent me; not that he travelled through each of the nations with a cup in his hand, as an emblem of what wrath would come upon them, and they should drink deep of; but this was done in vision, and also in prophecy; the prophet publishing the will of God, denouncing his judgments upon the nations, and declaring to them what would befall them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v20 Of Uz - Some part of Arabia Petraea, near…
Of Uz - Some part of Arabia Petraea, near to Idumaea. Of the Philistines - Uzzah, Ekron, Ashdod, and Askelon, were four of their cities, the fifth which was Gath is not here named. For before this time it was destroyed, either by Psammeticus, father to Pharaoh Necho, or by Tartan, captain general to Sargon, king of Assyria, of whom read, Isaiah xx, 1, that he took Ashdod, which may be the reason that here mention is made of no more than the remnant of Ashdod.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv17, 19, 20 Verse 17. Then took I the cup - and…
Verse 17. Then took I the cup - and made all the nations to drink] This cup of God's wrath is merely symbolical, and simply means that the prophet should declare to all these people that they shall fall under the Chaldean yoke, and that this is a punishment inflicted on them by God for their iniquities. "Then I took the cup;" I declared publicly the tribulation that God was about to bring on Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, and all the nations.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Jer 25:17. Then took I the cup — It…
Jer 25:17. Then took I the cup — It is not to be imagined that Jeremiah went round in person to all the nations and kings here enumerated, with a cup of wine in his hand, but, doubtless, what is here related passed in a vision, in which it was represented to his view. This, either by writing, or by some special messenger, he communicated to the several kings and nations to which God ordered him to publish it. Or, he himself actually did what is figuratively designed, that is, he publicly announced the judgments of God severally against them, as we find in the chapters mentioned in the note on Jer 25:13.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Then took I the cup - Not actually offering…
Then took I the cup - Not actually offering the wine-cup - Holy Scripture has suffered much from this materialistic way of explaining it: but publicly proclaiming this prophecy in Jerusalem, as the central spot of God’s dealings with men, and leaving it to find its way to the neighboring states.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv18–20 As, &c. He probably inserted this (Haydock) after the…
As, &c. He probably inserted this (Haydock) after the event, (Vatable) or the country was much distressed even under Sedecias.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv18–20 Jerusalem--put first: for "judgment begins at the house of…
Jerusalem--put first: for "judgment begins at the house of God"; they being most guilty whose religious privileges are greatest (Pe1 4:17).
kings--Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah.
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as it is this day--The accomplishment of the curse had already begun under Jehoiakim. This clause, however, may have been inserted by Jeremiah at his final revision of his prophecies in Egypt.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv18–20 18. Jerusalem — Mentioned first, as being most important,…
18. Jerusalem — Mentioned first, as being most important, and perhaps, too, most guilty.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–20 17. Then took I the cup] not in any…
17. Then took I the cup] not in any literal sense, but in vision; yet “not a mere allegory, but a psychic experience, in which Jeremiah really seems to himself to be forcing the goblet on the nations which he enumerates.” Pe.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–20 (17) Then took I the cup . . .—The…
(17) Then took I the cup . . .—The words describe the act of the prophet as in the ecstasy of vision. One by one the nations are made to drink of that cup of the wrath of Jehovah of which His own country was to have the first and fullest draught. It is a strange example of the literalism of minds incapable of entering into the poetry of a prophet’s work, that one commentator (Michaelis) has supposed that the prophet offered an actual goblet of wine to the ambassadors of the states named, who were then, as he imagines, assembled at Jerusalem, as in Jer_27:3.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Then took I the cup... and made all the…
Then took I the cup... and made all the nations to drink. It is too pro-sale to suppose either that Jeremiah made a journey to "all the nations," or that he actually went through the form of presenting the cup to the ambassadors who (it is conjectured, comp. Jer_27:3) had come to Jerusalem to take measures against the common foe (so J. D. Michaelis). But the supposition arises (as Keil has well observed) out of an imperfect comprehension of the figure. It is not a cup with wine which the prophet receives from Jehovah, but a wine-cup filled with the wine of God"s fury, which wine (one may add) is no more a literal wine than the "sword of Jehovah" is a literal sword. The "making all the nations to drink" is simply a way of expressing the prophet"s firm faith that the word of Jehovah will not "return unto him void that a prophecy once uttered must fulfill itself; and "sent me," in the last clause, merely means "entrusted me with a message". (comp. Pro_26:6) For the fulfillment of this detailed prediction, see on Jeremiah 46-51.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v20 (See Scofield "Job 1:1").
Uz
(See Scofield "Job 1:1").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv17, 19 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
This passage continues the metaphor of Yahweh's extreme anger as wine that he causes the people of the nations to drink from a cup. (See: Metaphor)
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I made all the nations ... drink it
The word "nations" represents the people of the nations. AT: "I made all the people of the nations ... drink the wine from the cup" (See: Metonymy)
something terrifying
The adjective "terrifying" can be translated with a verbal phrase. AT: "something that terrifies people"
an object for hissing and cursing
The word "hissing" refers to a sound that shows strong disapproval. Both "hissing" and "cursing" can be translated with a verbal phrase. AT: "an object at which people hiss and which they curse"
they are at this present day
Possible meanings are that this phrase 1) refers to the time when the book of Jeremiah was written and some time after Jeremiah had proclaimed this prophecy or 2) means that the things about which Jeremiah prophesies here have already started to happen.
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Jerusalem
kingdom of Judah
king
ruin
curse
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv17–19 25:17 So I . . . made all the…
25:17 So I . . . made all the nations drink from it: Jeremiah accomplished this by announcing God’s judgment.
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