Jeremiah Chapter 25 verse 17 Holy Bible
Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:
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Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;
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And I took the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Jehovah had sent me:
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Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
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Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
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`And I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Then took I the cup... and made all the nations to drink. It is too pro-sale to suppose either that Jeremiah made a journey to "all the nations," or that he actually went through the form of presenting the cup to the ambassadors who (it is conjectured, comp. Jeremiah 27:3b) had come to Jerusalem to take measures against the common foe (so J. D. Michaelis). But the supposition arises (as Keil has well observed) out of an imperfect comprehension of the figure. It is not a cup with wine which the prophet receives from Jehovah, but a wine-cup filled with the wine of God's fury, which wine (one may add) is no more a literal wine than the "sword of Jehovah" is a literal sword. The "making all the nations to drink" is simply a way of expressing the prophet's firm faith that the word of Jehovah will not "return unto him void " - that a prophecy once uttered must fulfill itself; and "sent me," in the last clause, merely means "entrusted me with a message" (comp. Proverbs 26:6). For the fulfillment of this detailed prediction, see on Jeremiah 46-51.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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 were then, as he imagines, assembled at Jerusalem, as in Jeremiah 27:3.
