4. Warnings in view of Judah’s hard heart 15:10-25:38This section of the book contains several collections of Jeremiah’s confessions, symbolic acts, and messages. These passages reflect conditions that were very grim, so their origin may have been shortly before the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. read more
Yahweh’s cup of wrath for the nations 25:15-29 read more
Jeremiah gave the messages of divine judgment to the nations to which God sent him. The following list of nations differs from the nations addressed in chapters 46-51 only slightly. Damascus does not appear here, but other nations, not mentioned in that later group, do. [Note: See the map of the ancient Near East at the end of these notes.] "This section identifying the judgments of God against the evil nations is expanded in chapters 46 through 51. These chapters are appropriately held off... read more
Jeremiah’s Fourteenth Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim). The Wine Cup of God’s FuryWe have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih’s reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, between the news of the victory of Nebuchadnezzar over Pharaoh-Necho and the Egyptians at Carchemish (605 b.c.) and the arrival of the Chaldean army under the walls of Jerusalem. The prophet advises submission to Babylon as God’s agent, but promises its overthrow at the end. of the seventy years’... read more
(17) Then took I the cup . . .—The words describe the act of the prophet as in the ecstasy of vision. One by one the nations are made to drink of that cup of the wrath of Jehovah of which His own country was to have the first and fullest draught. It is a strange example of the literalism of minds incapable of entering into the poetry of a prophet’s work, that one commentator (Michaelis) has supposed that the prophet offered an actual goblet of wine to the ambassadors of the states named, who... read more
CHAPTER XVIJEHOVAH AND THE NATIONSJeremiah 25:15-38"Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father’s authority and activity extend beyond the family and the household, so Israel in its childhood thought of Jehovah as exclusively concerned with itself.Such ideas as omnipotence and universal Providence did not exist; therefore they could not be denied; and the limitations of the national faith were not essentially... read more
CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years’ Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1-7 ) 2. The seventy years’ captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8-11 ) 3. The punishment of Babylon and its king (Jeremiah 25:12-14 ) 4. The wine-cup of fury for the nations (Jeremiah 25:15-29 ) 5. The day of the LORD and wrath of God (Jeremiah 25:30-38 ) Jeremiah 25:1-7 . The prophet in the fourth year of Jehoiakim addresses the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The... read more
MESSAGES IN JEHOIAKIM ’S REIGN Having just considered discourses in Zedekiah’s reign, and now returning to that of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1 ), it can be seen that the chapters are not arranged chronologically. The first message is that of the seventy years captivity. We are familiar with that period as Judah’s forced stay in Babylon, and it is interesting to see the place where it was definitely predicted (Jeremiah 25:11-12 ). Note what leads up to the prediction, God’s patience and... read more
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 that the wrath of God is coming upon them. The Lord had indeed been chastizing his children: but when that was accomplished, the rod should be burnt or destroyed. read more
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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 25:17
"Then I took the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me: to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, a hissing, and a curse, as it is to this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people.""The cup at Jehovah's hand ..." (Jeremiah 25:17). Although Jeremiah is here represented as giving the cup to the nations, it is actually God who... read more