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10 You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”(A)

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10 You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant.(A) Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

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20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
    and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.(A)

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20 Wine(A) is a mocker(B) and beer a brawler;
    whoever is led astray(C) by them is not wise.(D)

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24 The proud, haughty person, named Scoffer,
    acts with arrogant pride.(A)

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24 The proud and arrogant person(A)—“Mocker” is his name—
    behaves with insolent fury.

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I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 25.9 Gk Compare Syr: Heb and everlasting desolations

I will summon(A) all the peoples of the north(B) and my servant(C) Nebuchadnezzar(D) 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](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,(F) and an everlasting ruin.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.