Jeremiah 25:16

In 11 translations

BSB

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

KJV

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

WEB

They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

ASV

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

LSV

and they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shown themselves [to be] foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.”

YLT

And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.

DBY

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

DRC

And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them.

GNV

And they shall drinke, and be moued and be mad, because of the sworde that I will sende among them.

JPS

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them. —

LXXE

And I will bring upon Ælam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation to which they shall not come—even the outcasts of Ælam.

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WLC

וְשָׁת֕וּ וְהִֽתְגֹּֽעֲשׁ֖וּ וְהִתְהֹלָ֑לוּ מִפְּנֵ֣י הַחֶ֔רֶב אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י שֹׁלֵ֖חַ בֵּינֹתָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐπάξω ἐπὶ Αἰλὰμ τέσσαρας ἀνέμους ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἄκρων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ διασπερῶ αὐτοὺς ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἀνέμοις τούτοις, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ἔθνος ὃ οὐχ ἥξει ἐκεῖ, οἱ ἐξωσμένοι Αἰλάμ.

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• Jeremiah 51:7Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
• Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
• Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 25:27“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
• Revelation 16:9–11And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory. And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of…
• Revelation 14:10he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
• Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
• Ezekiel 23:32–34This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much. You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation…
• Lamentations 4:21So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
• Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
• Revelation 14:8Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

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