See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Jeremiah 25:17 - Revised Standard Version So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then I [Jeremiah] took the cup from the Lord's hand and made all the nations drink it to whom the Lord had sent me: [that is,] American Standard Version (1901) Then took I the cup at Jehovah’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me: Common English Bible So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand, and I made all the nations drink from it where the LORD had sent me: Catholic Public Domain Version And I received the chalice from the hand of the Lord, and I caused all the nations, to which the Lord has sent me, to drink from it: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me: |
See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
“And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: You must drink!
behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;
And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and stagger! The cup in the Lord's right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!