Jeremiah 25:16
What does Jeremiah 25:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 25:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
- Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
- Revelation 18:3
For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.
- Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
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