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Text -- Jeremiah 25:7-38 (NET)
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25:7 So, now the Lord says , ‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done . Thus you have brought harm on yourselves .’
25:8 “Therefore , the Lord who rules over all says , ‘You have not listened to what I said .
25:9 So I, the Lord , affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant , King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon . I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins . I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn .
25:10 I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness , to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal . I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.
25:11 This whole area will become a desolate wasteland . These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years .’
25:12 “‘But when the seventy years are over , I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins . I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin . I, the Lord , affirm it!
25:13 I will bring on that land everything that I said I would. I will bring on it everything that is written in this book . I will bring on it everything that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations .
25:14 For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too . I will repay them for all they have done !’”
Judah and the Nations Will Experience God’s Wrath
25:15 So the Lord , the God of Israel , spoke to me in a vision. “Take this cup from my hand . It is filled with the wine of my wrath . Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
25:16 When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane . For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
25:17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand . I made all the nations to whom he sent me drink the wine of his wrath.
25:18 I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah , its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin . I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn , an example used in curses . Such is already becoming the case!
25:19 I made all of these other people drink it: Pharaoh , king of Egypt ; his attendants , his officials , his people,
25:20 the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz ; all the kings of the land of the Philistines , the people of Ashkelon , Gaza , Ekron , the people who had been left alive from Ashdod ;
25:21 all the people of Edom , Moab , Ammon ;
25:22 all the kings of Tyre , all the kings of Sidon ; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea ;
25:23 the people of Dedan , Tema , Buz , all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples ;
25:24 all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert ;
25:25 all the kings of Zimri ; all the kings of Elam ; all the kings of Media ;
25:26 all the kings of the north , whether near or far from one another ; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth . After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.
25:27 Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them that the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says , ‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit . Drink until you fall down and can’t get up . For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
25:28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says ‘You most certainly must drink it!
25:29 For take note , I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own . So how can you possibly avoid being punished ? You will not go unpunished ! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth . I, the Lord who rules over all , affirm it!’
25:30 “Then, Jeremiah, make the following prophecy against them: ‘Like a lion about to attack, the Lord will roar from the heights of heaven; from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly . He will roar mightily against his land . He will shout in triumph like those stomping juice from the grapes against all those who live on the earth .
25:31 The sounds of battle will resound to the ends of the earth . For the Lord will bring charges against the nations . He will pass judgment on all humankind and will hand the wicked over to be killed in war .’ The Lord so affirms it!
25:32 The Lord who rules over all says , ‘Disaster will soon come on one nation after another . A mighty storm of military destruction is rising up from the distant parts of the earth .’
25:33 Those who have been killed by the Lord at that time will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other . They will not be mourned over, gathered up , or buried . Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure .
25:34 Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers ! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come . You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery .
25:35 The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape .
25:36 Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders . Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks . They are wailing because the Lord is about to destroy their lands .
25:37 Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the Lord .
25:38 The Lord is like a lion who has left his lair . So their lands will certainly be laid waste by the warfare of the oppressive nation and by the fierce anger of the Lord.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Captivity |
JEREMIAH (2) |
Israel |
JEREMIAH, BOOK OF |
Government |
Nation |
Cup |
Babylon |
Sin |
Sidon |
Ammonites |
PALESTINE, 3 |
Anger |
Drunkeess |
Tema |
Philistines |
Sheshach |
Symbols and Similitudes |
Edom |
Tyre |
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NET Notes -> Jer 25:7; Jer 25:7; Jer 25:7; Jer 25:8; Jer 25:8; Jer 25:8; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:9; Jer 25:10; Jer 25:10; Jer 25:11; Jer 25:11; Jer 25:12; Jer 25:12; Jer 25:12; Jer 25:12; Jer 25:12; Jer 25:13; Jer 25:14; Jer 25:14; Jer 25:15; Jer 25:15; Jer 25:15; Jer 25:16; Jer 25:16; Jer 25:17; Jer 25:18; Jer 25:18; Jer 25:18; Jer 25:18; Jer 25:18; Jer 25:19; Jer 25:20; Jer 25:20; Jer 25:20; Jer 25:20; Jer 25:21; Jer 25:21; Jer 25:21; Jer 25:22; Jer 25:22; Jer 25:22; Jer 25:22; Jer 25:23; Jer 25:23; Jer 25:23; Jer 25:24; Jer 25:24; Jer 25:25; Jer 25:25; Jer 25:25; Jer 25:26; Jer 25:26; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:27; Jer 25:28; Jer 25:28; Jer 25:29; Jer 25:29; Jer 25:29; Jer 25:29; Jer 25:29; Jer 25:30; Jer 25:30; Jer 25:30; Jer 25:30; Jer 25:30; Jer 25:30; Jer 25:31; Jer 25:31; Jer 25:31; Jer 25:31; Jer 25:31; Jer 25:32; Jer 25:32; Jer 25:32; Jer 25:32; Jer 25:32; Jer 25:33; Jer 25:34; Jer 25:34; Jer 25:34; Jer 25:35; Jer 25:35; Jer 25:36; Jer 25:36; Jer 25:37; Jer 25:37; Jer 25:38; Jer 25:38; Jer 25:38; Jer 25:38; Jer 25:38
NET Notes: Jer 25:7 Heb “make me angry with the work of your hands.” The term “work of your own hands” is often interpreted as a reference to idol...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:10 The sound of people grinding meal and the presence of lamps shining in their houses were signs of everyday life. The Lord is going to make these lands...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:11 It should be noted that the text says that the nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years, not that they will lie desolate for s...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:13 Or “I will bring upon it everything that is to be written in this book. I will bring upon it everything that Jeremiah is going to prophesy conce...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:14 Heb “according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.” The two phrases are synonymous; it would be hard to represent the...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:15 “Drinking from the cup of wrath” is a common figure to represent being punished by God. Isaiah had used it earlier to refer to the punishm...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:16 Heb “because of the sword that I will send among them.” Here, as often elsewhere in Jeremiah, the sword is figurative for warfare which br...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:17 The words “the wine of his wrath” are not in the text but are implicit in the metaphor (see vv. 15-16). They are supplied in the translati...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:18 Heb “as it is today.” This phrase would obviously be more appropriate after all these things had happened as is the case in 44:6, 23 where...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:20 The Greek historian Herodotus reports that Ashdod had been destroyed under the Pharaoh who preceded Necho, Psammetichus.
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NET Notes: Jer 25:22 The connection with Tyre and Sidon suggests that these were Phoenician colonies. See also Isa 23:2.
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NET Notes: Jer 25:23 See Jer 9:26 where these are mentioned in connection with Moab, Edom, and Ammon.
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NET Notes: Jer 25:25 Elam and Media were east of Babylon; Elam in the south and Media in the north. They were in what is now western Iran.
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NET Notes: Jer 25:26 Heb “the king of Sheshach.” “Sheshach” is a code name for Babylon formed on the principle of substituting the last letter of t...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:27 Heb “because of the sword that I will send among you.” See the notes on 2:16 for explanation.
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NET Notes: Jer 25:28 The translation attempts to reflect the emphatic construction of the infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb which is here an obligatory imperfe...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:30 The metaphor shifts from God as a lion to God as a mighty warrior (Jer 20:11; Isa 42:13; Zeph 3:17) shouting in triumph over his foes. Within the meta...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:32 For the use of this word in a literal sense see Jonah 1:4. For its use to refer to the wrath of the Lord which will rage over the wicked see Jer 23:19...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:33 The intent here is to emphasize the large quantity of those who are killed – there will be too many to insure proper mourning rites and proper b...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:34 The meaning of this line is debated. The Greek version does not have the words “lie scattered” and it reads the words “like broken p...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:35 Judging from Gen 14:10 and Judg 8:12 (among many others), it was not uncommon for the leaders to try to save their own necks at the expense of their s...
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NET Notes: Jer 25:36 Jer 25:36-38 shifts to the future as though the action were already accomplished or going on. It is the sound that Jeremiah hears in his “prophe...
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