Jeremiah 25:9-21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:8-14

Here is the sentence grounded upon the foregoing charge: ?Because you have not heard my words, I must take another course with you,? Jer. 25:8. Note, When men will not regard the judgments of God's mouth they may expect to feel the judgments of his hands, to hear the rod, since they would not hear the word; for the sinner must either be parted from his sin or perish in it. Wrath comes without remedy against those only that sin without repentance. It is not so much men's turning aside that... read more

Matthew Henry

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 25:9

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north , saith the Lord ,.... The Targum is, the kingdoms of the north, the same with those in Jeremiah 1:15 ; even all those kingdoms which were subject to the king of Babylon, and lay north of Judea: and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant : though a great king, he was a servant of the Lord of hosts; his servant, both as a creature of his make, and as a king that ruled under him; and as he was an instrument in his hand... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover, I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness ,.... At their festivals, and nuptial solemnities: the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride ; expressing their mutual love unto, and delight in, each other; so agreeable to one another and their friends: or it may mean those epithalamies, or nuptial songs, sung unto them by their friends: the sound of the millstones ; either the voice of those that sing at the mill while grinding; or rather... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:11

And this whole land shall be a desolation ,.... Not only the city of Jerusalem, but all Judea, without inhabitants, or very few, and shall be uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful: and an astonishment ; to all other nations, and to all persons that pass through, beholding the desolations of it: and other nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years ; both the Jews, and other nations of Egypt, reckoning from the date of this prophecy, the fourth year of Jehoiakim's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:12

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished ,.... Which were accomplished in the first year of Cyrus: they began with the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned two years and two months with his father Nabopolassar; after that forty three years by himself; Evilmerodach two years: Neriglissar four years; Belshazzar or Nabonadius seventeen years; and Darius the Median two years; which all make sixty nine years and two months; and if ten months more be added to complete... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:13

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it ,.... By his prophets, and particularly by Jeremiah, as follows; for not one word that is spoken by the Lord, either in a way of promise or threatening, shall fail; his truth, power, and faithfulness, are engaged to accomplish all: even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations ; the Egyptians, Philistines, Moabites, Edomites, Arabians, Persians, and also the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also ,.... Take their cities, seize upon the kingdoms, spoil them of their wealth and riches, and bring them into servitude to them: these "many nations", which should and did do all this, were the Medes and Persians, and those that were subject to them, or were their allies and auxiliaries in this expedition; and the "great kings" were Cyrus and Darius, and those that were confederate with them: and I will recompense them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15

For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me ,.... The prophet: take the wine cup of this fury at my hand ; in a vision the Lord appeared to Jeremiah with a cup of wine in his hand, which he bid him take of him. It is usual in Scripture for the judgments of God on men to be signified by a cup of hot and intoxicating liquor, Isaiah 51:17 ; particularly in Psalm 75:8 ; to which reference may be had; as John seems to refer to the passage here in Revelation 14:10 ; called a cup,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:16

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 persons; make them shake and tremble, and reel to and fro, and toss and tumble about, and behave like madmen: because of the sword that I will send among them ; this explains what is meant by the wine cup of fury, the sword of a foreign enemy that shall enter among them and destroy; and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:8-14

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:16

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