Sinai LogoSinai

Jeremiah 25:16

World English Bible

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

Read all of Jeremiah 25Open in the Sinai app

Jeremiah 25:16 in other translations

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

Jeremiah 25:16 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 25:16 in context

  1. 14For 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.”
  2. 15For Yahweh, 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.
  3. 16They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
  4. 17Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
  5. 18Jerusalem, 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;