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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 25:16

And they shall drink and be moved, so that they would stagger and reel, and be mad, stunned and stupefied with the intoxicating effects of the liquid consumed, because of the sword that I will send among them, that is, the war which the Lord intended to bring upon these nations would be so severe, so horrible, that people would be stupefied by its terrors and perish in helpless confusion.

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See also Jeremiah 25:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BE MOVED - Rather, stagger....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah public...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE MOVED. reel to and fro. BECAUSE OF THE SWORD, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25; Leviticus 26:33). App-92....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The wine-cup of the Lord's fury to be drunk by all the nations. For confusion and dismay, expressed under the figure of intoxication, see below. Overthrow at the hands of the Chaldaeans is to be the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Judgment on Surrounding Nations Jeremiah 25:15-29 TRANSLATION (15) For thus says the LORD, God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of wine, wrath, from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I am...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. THEY SHALL DRINK, AND BE MOVED - reel ()....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, betw...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BE MOVED] RV 'reel to and fro.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL DRINK... — The words describe what history has often witnessed, the panic-terror of lesser nations before the onward march of a great conqueror — they are as if stricken with a drunken madn...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁת֕וּ וְ הִֽתְגֹּֽעֲשׁ֖וּ וְ הִתְהֹלָ֑לוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 25:15 "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31 As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and act...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah reminded him of the word which came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It was a message announcing the judgment of God against Judah, Babylon, the nations, the world...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This scripture can need no other comment, than what is contained in Revelation 14:10. By Jeremiah's taking the cup, and making all these nations drink of it, is meant, making them to hear and know tha...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here the Prophet more fully shews what we have before stated, that they were not vain terrors when he denounced God’s judgments on all nations, for we call those threatenings childish which are not ac...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 25 closes, so to say, this part of the prophecy with a general summary of God's judgments on the earth, giving it into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The immediate application to events already a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. Ver. 16. _And be moved and be mad._] As men that are overcome by some hot and heady liquor, are mad d...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thus saith the Lord, Take the wine-cup of this fury_, &c. “Those circumstances which constitute the good and evil of human life are often represented in Scripture as the ingredients of a cup, which G...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-29 The evil and the good events of life are often represented in Scripture as cups. Under this figure is represented the desolation then coming upon that part of the world, of which Nebuchadnezzar...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Whether they will or no, they shall drink it, and be disturbed, and be mad, and rage like men overcome with wine, because of those dreadful judgments which I shall send amongst them....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 25:16 drink H8354 (H8804) stagger H1607 (H8707) mad H1984 (H8703) because H6440 sword H2719 send...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE MADE TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF YHWH'S WRATH AGAINST SIN AND IDOLATRY (JEREMIAH 25:15). In these remarkable words the destinies of all nations are seen as in YHWH's hands. And th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of seventy years' captivity. Sign of the wine cup of fury. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Men would never receive from God the desolating pu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 25:1. _In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the first year of Nebuchadrezzar._ Daniel says the third year, Daniel 1:1. The campaign could not be less than a year; the variation arises from the per...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER: “_Fourth year of Jehoiakim_” (Jeremiah 25:1). It is stated the _third_ year in Daniel 1:1; but Hales (“Sacred Chron.”) shows that Jehoiakim...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1). So now we're going back in time. This was before Zedekiah was king. This was when Jeh...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 23:32; Jeremiah 25:27; Jeremiah 51:39; Jeremiah 51:7;...

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