OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

Jeremiah 25:16

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

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Jeremiah 25:13–19

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I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

14

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.”

15

For the LORD, 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.

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

17

Then I took the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:

18

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;

19

Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;

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