For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
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Gill's Exposition
For thus saith the Lord,.... This that follows shows that what goes before is not said by way of promise and comfort, but threatening:
behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have…
Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of…
The Edomites come next to receive their doom from God, by the mouth of Jeremiah: they also were old enemies to the Israel of God; but their day will come to be reckoned with, and it is now at hand,…
Cambridge Bible
they to whom it pertained not for the metaphor See on Jer 13:12; Jer 25:15.
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