Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
New American Standard Bible
They will
King James Version
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Holman Bible
They will drink, stagger,
International Standard Version
They'll drink, stagger, and act like madmen because of the sword I'm sending among them."
American Standard Version
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Amplified
They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Bible in Basic English
And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.
Darby Translation
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Julia Smith Translation
And they drank and they staggered, and they were mad from the face of the sword which I sent in the midst of them.
King James 2000
And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the {presence} of the sword that I [am] sending among them."
Modern King James verseion
And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that when they have drunken thereof, they may be mad, and out of their wits, when the sword cometh that I will send among them.'
NET Bible
When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them."
New Heart English Bible
They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them."
The Emphasized Bible
Yea they shall drink and reel to and fro and act as madmen, because of the sword which I am sending between them.
Webster
And they shall drink, and be moved, and enraged, because of the sword that I will send among them.
World English Bible
They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.
Themes
Ammonites » Prophecies concerning
the Ammonites » Predictions respecting » Subjection to babylon
Edomites, the » Predictions respecting » To share in the punishment of the nations
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 25:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Cup Of God's Wrath
15 For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then I took the cup at LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom LORD had sent me:
Cross References
Nahum 3:11
Thou also shall be drunken. Thou shall be hid. Thou also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon has been a golden cup in LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine, therefore the nations are mad.
Jeremiah 25:27
And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. [Yet] the cup shall pass through to thee also. Thou shall be drunken, and shall make thyself naked.
Ezekiel 23:32-34
Thus says lord LORD: Thou shall drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large. Thou shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision. It contains much.
Revelation 14:8
And another, a second agent, followed, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen. She has given all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:10
he also himself will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which was mixed undiluted in the cup of his anger. And he will be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy agents and before the Lamb.
Revelation 16:9-11
And the men were scorched with great heat. And the men blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.
Revelation 18:3
Because all the nations have drunk from the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth fornicated with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her wantonness.