Jeremiah 25:27

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15-29

Under the similitude of a cup going round, which all the company must drink of, is here represented the universal desolation that was now coming upon that part of the world which Nebuchadrezzar, who just now began to reign and act, was to be the instrument of, and which should at length recoil upon his own country. The cup in the vision is to be a sword in the accomplishment of it: so it is explained, Jer. 25:16. It is the sword that I will send among them, the sword of war, that should be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:27

Therefore thou shalt say unto them ,.... To the several nations before mentioned, prophesied against: thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; the Lord of armies, above and below, the Sovereign of the whole universe; but in a special and peculiar manner the God of Israel: drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more ; as is sometimes the case of drunken men; they drink till they are quite intoxicated; and become drunk, and then they spew up what they have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 25:27

Be drunken, and spue - Why did we not use the word vomit, less offensive than the other, and yet of the same signification? read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 25:27

Verse 27 Here the Prophet returns to his former discourse. He had said that a cup was extended to him by God’s hand, that he might give it to all nations to drink. He now repeats and confirms the same thing, not indeed that he brought this message to all the nations; for we have said the benefit arising from these predictions belonged only to the Jews. Neither the Tyrians nor the Sidonians ever knew that they were punished by God’s hand when they were plundered by their enemies; this never came... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 25:1-38

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 25:12-29

The judgment upon Judah and the nations. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 25:27

Therefore thou shalt say , etc.; rather, And thou shalt say , etc. This verse is probably a continuation of Jeremiah 25:16 , Jeremiah 25:17 , Jeremiah 25:18-26 being apparently inserted by an afterthought. The message given to Jeremiah to deliver is that the judgment is both overpoweringly complete and irreversible. If God's own people has not been spared, how should any other escape (comp. Jeremiah 49:12 )? read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 25:27

The metaphors denote the helplessness to which the nations are reduced by drinking the wine-cup of fury Jeremiah 25:15. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 25:27-29

Jeremiah 25:27-29. Drink ye and be drunken The imperative is here put for the future: see the like mode of speaking, Isaiah 2:9; Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 23:16. The cup being metaphorically put for calamity, to be drunken with it, and fall, &c., must signify extreme calamity, or destruction. If they refuse to take the cup, &c. “If they either do not believe thy threatenings, or disregard them, as thinking themselves sufficiently provided against any hostile invasion, thou shalt... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15-38

Judgment on various nations (25:15-38)God is righteous and holy, and in justice pours out his wrath on those who arrogantly defy his authority. His judgment upon wicked nations is likened to a cup of wine given to a person to make him drunk so that he staggers and falls (15-16). Through the spreading conquests of the Babylonian armies, God has punished Judah (17-18), along with a variety of other nations far and near (19-25). But in the end Babylon, the agent God has used to carry out his... read more

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