Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink,.... To give credit to the prophecies of ruin and destruction delivered by the prophet, but say, these things shall not be:…
Barnes' Notes
The metaphors denote the helplessness to which the nations are reduced by drinking the wine-cup of fury Jer 25:15.
Under the similitude of a cup going round, which all the company must drink of, is here represented the universal desolation that was now coming upon that part of the world which Nebuchadrezzar, who…
There is some reason to consider these vv. a later insertion. For (i) the nations (Jer 25:25) had already been made to drink, (ii) Jehovah ("and thou shalt say") suddenly becomes the speaker, instead…
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