See, today I have appointed you over nations and over kingdoms: to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Jeremiah 25:17 - Tree of Life Version Then I took the cup from Adonai’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom Adonai had sent me: 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, today I have appointed you over nations and over kingdoms: to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
And if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then here is what you will say to them: “Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, you will surely drink!
I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.
Then send such to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of Ammon’s children, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of messengers that come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah.
“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt. Prophesy against him and against all Egypt,
The appearance of the vision that I saw was like the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar. So I fell on my face.
You are filled with disgrace rather than glory. Drink—you too—and be uncircumcised. The cup of Adonai’s right hand will surround you, and disgrace will come upon your glory.