“And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Jeremiah 25:16 (BSB)
Context Reading
14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’” 15This 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. 16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.” 17So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me, 18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day — Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;