Parallel Verses
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.
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."
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.
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 saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto 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 took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:
Cross References
Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah'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 shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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, saith Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Ezekiel 23:32-34
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Revelation 14:8
And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:10
he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation 16:9-11
And men were scorched men with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.
Revelation 18:3
For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.