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14 They also shall serve many nations and great kings, and thus I will repay them according to their own deeds and according to the works of their hands.(A)

The Cup of Judgment on the Nations. 15 [a]For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath[b] from my hand and have all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.(B) 16 They shall drink, and retch, and go mad, because of the sword I will send among them.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:15–17 Jeremiah is a prophet to the nations (cf. 1:5) as well as to his own people. All the nations mentioned here appear again in the more extensive collection of Jeremiah’s oracles against the nations in chaps. 46–51.
  2. 25:15 Cup…wrath: a metaphor for destruction that occurs often in the Old Testament (cf. Ps 11:6; 75:9; Hb 2:15–16; Ez 23:31–33, etc.).

14 They themselves will be enslaved(A) by many nations(B) and great kings; I will repay(C) 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(D) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send(E) you drink it. 16 When they drink(F) it, they will stagger(G) and go mad(H) because of the sword(I) I will send among them.”

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