💧WEB · Jeremiah 25:17
What does Jeremiah 25:17 mean?
"Then took I the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:"
— Jeremiah 25:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Then took I 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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