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the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Jeremiah 25:16

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Anger;   Cup;   Drunkenness;   Government;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Nation;   Sidon;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;   Edomites, the;   Wine;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Moabites;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Drink;   Eternal Punishment;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Lamentations;   Moab;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ashdod ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeremi'ah, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cup;   Draughts;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Drunkenness;   Feign;   Habakkuk;   Mad;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”
Hebrew Names Version
They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
King James Version
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
English Standard Version
They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them."
New American Standard Bible
"Then they will drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them."
New Century Version
They will drink my anger and stumble about and act like madmen because of the war I am going to send among them."
Amplified Bible
"They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
World English Bible
They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they shall drinke, and be moued and be mad, because of the sworde that I will sende among them.
Legacy Standard Bible
They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
Contemporary English Version
They will vomit and act crazy, because of the war this cup of anger will bring to them."
Complete Jewish Bible
They will drink, stagger to and fro and behave like crazy people because of the sword that I will send among them.'"
Darby Translation
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Easy-to-Read Version
They will drink this wine. Then they will vomit and act like crazy people. They will do this because of the war that I will soon bring against them."
George Lamsa Translation
And they shall drink, and be dazed and be troubled because of the sword which I am sending among them.
Good News Translation
When they drink from it, they will stagger and go out of their minds because of the war I am sending against them."
Lexham English Bible
And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among them."
Literal Translation
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that when they haue dronke there of, they maye be madd, & out of their wyttes, when the swearde commeth, that I wil sende amoge them.
American Standard Version
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Bible in Basic English
And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them.--
King James Version (1611)
And they shall drinke, and be moued, and be mad, because of the sworde that I will send among them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That when they haue drunken therof, they may be madde and out of their wittes, when the sworde commeth that I wyll sende among them.
English Revised Version
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen drynke, and schulen be disturblid, and schulen be woode of the face of swerd, which Y schal sende among hem.
Update Bible Version
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall drink, and be moved, and enraged, because of the sword that I will send among them.
New English Translation
When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them."
New King James Version
And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
New Living Translation
When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them."
New Life Bible
They will drink and have trouble walking and become crazy because of the sword that I will send among them."
New Revised Standard
They shall drink and stagger and go out of their minds because of the sword that I am sending among them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea they shall drink and reel to and fro and act as madmen, because of the sword which I am sending between them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them.
Revised Standard Version
They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them."
Young's Literal Translation
And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

Contextual Overview

15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. 16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them."17So I took the cup from the LORD's hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me, 18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are this day-Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials; 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people; 20all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 21Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites; 22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; 23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair; 24all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 51:7, Jeremiah 51:39, Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 4:21, Ezekiel 23:32-34, Nahum 3:11, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 16:9-11, Revelation 18:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:34 - General Job 21:20 - drink Isaiah 14:31 - for Isaiah 19:14 - as a Isaiah 63:6 - make Jeremiah 51:6 - he will render Obadiah 1:16 - as ye Revelation 16:19 - in

Cross-References

Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money-every male among the members of Abraham's household-and he circumcised them that very day, just as God had told him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad,.... The judgments foretold shall come upon them, whether they will or not; which will have such effects upon them, as intoxicating liquor has on drunken persons; make them shake and tremble, and reel to and fro, and toss and tumble about, and behave like madmen:

because of the sword that I will send among them; this explains what is meant by the wine cup of fury, the sword of a foreign enemy that shall enter among them and destroy; and which would make them tremble, and be at their wits' end, like drunken and mad men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be moved - Rather, stagger.


 
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