Jeremiah 25:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The Cup of Judgment on the Nations. 15 [a]For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath[b] from my hand and have all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.(A) 16 They shall drink, and retch, and go mad, because of the sword I will send among them.(B) 17 I took the cup from the hand of the Lord and gave it as drink to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me:
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- 25:15–17 Jeremiah is a prophet to the nations (cf. 1:5) as well as to his own people. All the nations mentioned here appear again in the more extensive collection of Jeremiah’s oracles against the nations in chaps. 46–51.
- 25:15 Cup…wrath: a metaphor for destruction that occurs often in the Old Testament (cf. Ps 11:6; 75:9; Hb 2:15–16; Ez 23:31–33, etc.).
Ezekiel 23:32-34
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
32 Thus says the Lord God:(A)
The cup of your sister you shall drink,
deep and wide;
It brings ridicule and mockery,
it holds so much;
33 You will be filled with drunkenness and grief—
A cup of horror and devastation,
the cup of your sister Samaria;
34 You shall drink it dry,
its very sherds you will gnaw;
And you shall tear out your breasts;
for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.
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