Jeremiah 25:16 “And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of…”

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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

World English Bible

They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they shall drinke, and be moued and be mad, because of the sworde that I will sende 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.

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.

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.

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Cross references

“And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Jeremiah 51:7 Nahum 3:11 Jeremiah 25:27 Jeremiah 51:39 Lamentations 4:21 Ezekiel 23:32–34

Jeremiah 51:7 · BSB

Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

Nahum 3:11 · BSB

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

Jeremiah 25:27 · BSB

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

Jeremiah 51:39 · BSB

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

Lamentations 4:21 · BSB

So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

Ezekiel 23:32–34 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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.

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,

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