Jeremiah 48:26

New International Reader's Version

“Moab’s people think they are better than I am. So let their enemies make them drunk. Let the people get sick and throw up. Let them roll around in the mess they have made. Let people laugh at them.

Cross References

Job 15:25

They shake their fists at God. They brag about themselves and oppose the Mighty One.

Job 9:4

His wisdom is deep. His power is great. No one opposes him and comes away unharmed.

Psalm 2:4

The God who sits on his throne in heaven laughs. The Lord makes fun of those rulers and their plans.

Psalm 59:8

But you laugh at them, Lord. You make fun of all those nations.

Psalm 60:3

You have shown your people hard times. You have made us drink the wine of your anger. Now we can’t even walk straight.

Psalm 75:8

In the hand of the Lord is a cup. It is full of wine mixed with spices. It is the wine of his anger. He pours it out. All the evil people on earth drink it down to the very last drop.

Exodus 5:2

Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord? Why should I obey him? Why should I let Israel go? I don’t even know the Lord. And I won’t let Israel go.”

Exodus 9:17

But you are still against my people. You will not let them go.

Isaiah 10:15

Does an ax claim to be more important than the person who swings it? Does a saw brag that it is better than the one who uses it? That would be like a stick swinging the person who picks it up! It would be like a war club waving the one who carries it!

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has given them a spirit that makes them feel dizzy. They make Egypt unsteady in everything it does. Egypt is like a person who drinks too much. He throws up and then walks around in the mess he’s made.

Isaiah 28:8

They throw up. All the tables are covered with the mess they’ve made. There isn’t one spot on the tables that isn’t smelly and dirty.

Isaiah 29:9

People of Jerusalem, be shocked and amazed. Make yourselves blind so you can’t see anything. Get drunk, but not from wine. Be unsteady on your feet, but not because of beer.

Isaiah 51:17

Wake up, Jerusalem! Wake up! Get up! The Lord has handed you the cup of his great anger. And you have drunk from it. That cup makes people unsteady on their feet. And you have drunk from it to the very last drop.

Isaiah 63:6

I walked all over the nations because I was angry with them. I made them drink from the cup of my great anger. I poured out their blood on the ground.”

Jeremiah 48:39

“How broken Moab is! How the people weep! They turn away from others because they are so ashamed. All those around them laugh at them. They are shocked at them.”

Jeremiah 48:42

Moab will be destroyed as a nation. That is because its people thought they were better than the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Send for men armed with bows and arrows. Send them against Babylon. Set up camp all around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay it back for what its people have done. Do to them what they have done to others. They have dared to disobey me. I am the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:39

They are stirred up. So I will set a feast in front of them. I will make them drunk. And they will shout and laugh. But then they will lie down and die. They will never wake up,” announces the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make Babylon’s officials and wise men drunk. I will do the same thing to its governors, officers and soldiers. They will lie down and die. They will never wake up,” announces the King. His name is the Lord Who Rules Over All.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was like a gold cup in my hand. That city made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank its wine. So now they have gone crazy.

Lamentations 1:21

“People have heard me groan. But no one is here to comfort me. My enemies have heard about all my troubles. What you have done makes them happy. So please judge them, just as you said you would. Let them become like me.

Lamentations 3:15

The Lord has made my life bitter. He has made me suffer bitterly.

Lamentations 4:21

People of Edom, be joyful. You who live in the land of Uz, be glad. But the cup of the Lord’s anger will also be passed to you. Then you will become drunk. Your clothes will be stripped off.

Daniel 11:36

“A certain king will do as he pleases. He will honor himself. He will put himself above every god. He will say things against the greatest God of all. Those things have never been heard before. He will have success until God is not angry anymore. What God has decided to do must take place.

Daniel 5:23

You have taken your stand against the Lord of heaven. You had your servants bring cups from his temple to you. You and your nobles drank wine from them. So did your wives and concubines. You praised your gods. The statues of those gods are made out of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood or stone. They can’t see or hear or understand anything. But you didn’t honor God. He holds in his hand your very life and everything you do.

Daniel 8:10

It grew until it reached the stars in the sky. It threw some of them down to the earth. And it stomped on them.

Nahum 3:11

People of Nineveh, you too will get drunk. You will try to hide from your enemies. You will look for a place of safety.

Habakkuk 2:16

But the Babylonians will be filled with shame instead of glory. So now it is their turn to drink and be stripped of their clothes. The cup of anger in my powerful right hand is going to punish them. They will be covered with shame instead of glory.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will oppose everything that is called God. He will oppose everything that is worshiped. He will give himself power over everything. He will set himself up in God’s temple. He will announce that he himself is God.

Revelation 16:19

The great city split into three parts. The cities of the nations crumbled and fell. God remembered Babylon the Great. He gave Babylon the cup filled with the wine of his terrible anger.