The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #91
91. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 25
1-3 The Lord to those with whom the church has been instituted. (11, 2)
4-7 He taught them continually by the Word, that they should refrain from evils, and not go away to any other worship than that of the Lord; but they did not obey. (2, 11)
8-11 Therefore everything of the church among them will perish, and they will be in temptations from those who profane things holy. (2)
12 Retribution will afterwards visit the tempters. (2, 11, 3)
13-14 It will so come to pass. (2, 11)
15-27 Knowledges [cognitiones] of truth and good, and also truths of every kind and sort will perish. (3)
28-30 This cannot otherwise than come to pass, even with those who are in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word. (3)
31-33 There is no longer any truth that has not been profaned. (3)
34-38 Lamentation by those who are in good, and in truths therefrom. (11)
Jeremiah 25:15-27
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For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
16
They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17
Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
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[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
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Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
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and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
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Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
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and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
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Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of their hair] cut off;
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and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
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and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
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You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
