Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 25:16
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Be moved – Rather, stagger.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Whether they will or no, they shall drink it, and be disturbed, and be mad, and rage like men overcome with wine, because of those dreadful judgments which I shall send amongst them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
16. be movedreel (Na3:11).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad,…. The judgments foretold shall come upon them, whether they will or not; which will have such effects upon them, as intoxicating liquor has on drunken persons; make them shake and tremble, and reel to and fro, and toss and tumble about, and behave like madmen:
because of the sword that I will send among them; this explains what is meant by the wine cup of fury, the sword of a foreign enemy that shall enter among them and destroy; and which would make them tremble, and be at their wits’ end, like drunken and mad men.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Here the Prophet more fully shews what we have before stated, that they were not vain terrors when he denounced God’s judgments on all nations, for we call those threatenings childish which are not accomplished. But the Prophet here declares that however obstinately the Jews and others might resist, they could not possibly escape God’s vengeance, as he was the judge of all. Hence the Prophet is bidden to take a cup and to give it to others. But the Jews might have still objected and said, “We may, indeed, take the cup from thine hand, but what if we refuse? what if we cast away from us what thou givest us to drink?” Hence the Prophet says that, willing or unwilling, they were to take the cup, that they might drink and exhaust whatever was destined for them by God’s judgment; he therefore says that they may drink
He then adds, that they may be incensed and become distracted (137) These two words refer, no doubt, to the grievousness of their punishment; for he intimates that they would become, as it were, destitute of mind and reason. When God kindly chastises us, and with paternal moderation, we are then able with resignation to submit to him and to flee to his mercy; but when we make a clamor and are driven almost to madness, we then shew that an extreme rigor is felt, and that there is no hope of pardon. The Prophet, then, intended to express, that so atrocious would be the calamities of the nations with whom God was angry, that they would become stupified and almost insane; and at the same time frantic, for despair would lay hold on their minds and hearts, that they would not be able to entertain any hope of deliverance, or to submit to God, but that they would, as it is usual with the reprobate, rise up against God and vomit forth their blasphemies.
He says, because of the sword that I will send among them. It appears from the word בינתם, bintem, “among them,” that there would be mutual conflicts, that they would destroy one another. God, then, would send his sword; but he would extend it now to the Chaldeans, then to the Egyptians; now to the Assyrians, then to other nations, so that with the same sword they would contend one with another, until at last it would prove a ruin to them all. It now follows, —
(137) The Versions vary as to these two verbs: the best rendering is, —
And they shall drink and reel; And they shall be distracted on account of the sword, Which I shall send among them.
Blayney’s version is nearly the same, “drink and stagger and be out of their wits;” but it is better to connect “the sword” with the latter verb only. — Ed.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(16) They shall drink . . .The words describe what history has often witnessed, the panic-terror of lesser nations before the onward march of a great conquerorthey are as if stricken with a drunken madness, and their despair or their resistance is equally infatuated. The imagery is one familiar in earlier prophets. (Isa. 51:17; Isa. 51:22; Hab. 2:16; Psa. 60:5; Psa. 75:8; Eze. 23:31.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Jer 25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Ver. 16. And be moved and be mad. ] As men that are overcome by some hot and heady liquor, are mad drunk.
Because of the sword that I shall send.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
be moved = reel to and fro.
because of the sword, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 26:25, Lev 26:33). App-92.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Jer 25:27, Jer 51:7, Jer 51:39, Lam 3:15, Lam 4:21, Eze 23:32-34, Nah 3:11, Rev 14:8, Rev 14:10, Rev 16:9-11, Rev 18:3
Reciprocal: Deu 28:34 – General Job 21:20 – drink Isa 14:31 – for Isa 19:14 – as a Isa 63:6 – make Jer 51:6 – he will render Oba 1:16 – as ye Rev 16:19 – in
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 25:16. This verse describes the confusion that will be caused among the nations over the chastisement that the Lord will inflict upon them.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The outpouring of divine wrath on them, in war, would make them behave as though they had drunk too much wine. They would stagger around and lose control of their senses. Drunkenness in the Bible is sometimes a symbol of a sinful state that calls for judgment (cf. Jer 13:12-14; Isa 19:14; Isa 28:7-13).