Jeremiah 25:15

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Yahweh, identified as the God of Israel, commands the prophet Jeremiah to receive a symbolic object and deliver it to every nation he is sent to. This occurs within a sequence detailing the impending enslavement of nations by great kings and the subsequent divine repayment for their deeds.

The words — קַח (kach) = take. The imperative verb commands the physical reception of a symbolic object to enact the prophetic message of judgment.

The thread — The motif appears in Psalms 75:8 where a cup of foaming wine rests in the LORD’s hand, and in Isaiah 51:17 regarding Jerusalem drinking the cup of His fury. Job 21:20 parallels the concept by describing the wicked drinking the wrath of the Almighty without mentioning a cup.

Why it lands — The text demands immediate compliance with a message of universal judgment, leaving no room for negotiation or exemption. It requires the reader to recognize that divine retribution is actively administered and universally applied.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

Cross-references

Psalms 75:8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
Job 21:20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
Revelation 14:10 he 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.
Isaiah 51:22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon 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.
Psalms 11:6 On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
Jeremiah 13:12 Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
Revelation 14:19 So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.