Jeremiah 25:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁת֕וּ וְהִֽתְגֹּֽעֲשׁ֖וּ וְהִתְהֹלָ֑לוּ מִפְּנֵ֣י הַחֶ֔רֶב אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י שֹׁלֵ֖חַ בֵּינֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

And šātû and hitgōʿăšû and hithōlālû from before the ḥereb which ʾānōḵî šōlēaḥ among them.

Grammar Details

• *šātû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person plural with waw consecutive - and they will drink
• *hitgōʿăšû*: Hithpael perfect, 3rd person plural with waw consecutive - and they will reel/stagger
• *hithōlālû*: Hithpael perfect, 3rd person plural with waw consecutive - and they will act madly/be mad
• *ḥereb*: feminine singular noun with definite article - sword
• *ʾānōḵî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *šōlēaḥ*: Qal participle, masculine singular - sending

Word Meanings

• *hitgōʿăšû*: reel/stagger/be tossed to and fro
• *hithōlālû*: act madly/be insane/act like fools
• *ḥereb*: sword/warfare/destruction
• *šōlēaḥ*: sending/dispatching/letting loose

Referenced Verses

• Nah 3:11 : 11 Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
• Jer 51:7 : 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
• Jer 51:39 : 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
• Lam 3:15 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
• Lam 4:21 : 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
• Ezek 23:32-34 : 32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Rev 14:8 : 8 And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
• Rev 14:10 : 10 {G2532} he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
• Rev 16:9-9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory. 10 And the fifth {G32} poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works.
• Rev 18:3 : 3 For by {G1537} the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.
• Jer 25:27 : 27 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.