Jeremiah 25:28

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Modern

If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!

Traditional

And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

Literal

And it will come to pass, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, that you shall say to them, thus says YHWH of Hosts: ‘You shall surely drink!

Latin

Cumque noluerint accipere calicem de manu tua ut bibant, dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Bibentes bibetis:

Original

Hebrew

English

If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!

Notes

Jeremiah 25:27–29

These kingdoms had to face the Lord's anger (see study note on Jeremiah 25:15). They could not escape the disaster that would overwhelm them. Jerusalem experienced God's judgment, and the surrounding nations would too.

Jeremiah 25:15–38

The Lord is the supreme ruler of all nations, and their rebellion was about to bring judgment.
To whom I send you: Jeremiah did not travel to each nation in person. The message he delivered from the Lord spread mainly through written material, much of it in the book of Jeremiah, which people have read worldwide.

Theme notes and profiles

The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Job 34:33
Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
Isaiah 46:10–11
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
Acts 4:28
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
Isaiah 14:24–27
The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
Ephesians 1:11
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
Jeremiah 49:12
For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
Daniel 4:35
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
Jeremiah 4:28
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
Jeremiah 51:29
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Jehoiakim

Topics

Cup of Sorrow Drunkenness: Figurative Government: Unclassified Scriptures Relating to God In Nation: Chastised Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Punishment: Divine: No Escape From The Sidonians: Predictions Respecting: Partaking with the Other Nations of God's Judgments

Jeremiah 25:28

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