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Jeremiah 25:16

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And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
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  1. Jeremiah 51:7Rank 1 from verse 16
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    7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

  2. Nahum 3:11Rank 2 from verse 16
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    11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

  3. Ezekiel 23:32–34Rank 3 from verse 16
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    32Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

    33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

    34Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

  4. Jeremiah 25:27Rank 4 from verse 16
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    27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

  5. Jeremiah 51:39Rank 5 from verse 16
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    39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 25:16

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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moved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of move, meaning to change place; to stir, shake, prompt, influence, or set in action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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mad

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Out of sound judgment or self-control; insane, enraged, or violently furious.

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15¶ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

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17Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:

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