Text: Jeremiah 46
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 25:15
Subject: oracles against the nations
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Jeremiah 25:15 introduces the "cup of the wine of wrath" (כּוֹס הַיַּיִן הַחֵמָה, kos hayayin hahemah) that God commands Jeremiah to make all nations drink, and this cup-of-wrath oracle provides the theological framework for the detailed oracles against the nations that begin in Jeremiah 46. The cup metaphor in chapter 25 functions as a prologue: the nations are listed in a summary catalogue (25:15-26), while chapters 46-51 expand each oracle individually. Jeremiah 46 (against Egypt) begins the full elaboration of what the cup of wrath means for each specific nation. The connection between the cup-vision and the expanded oracles shows a literary structure where the programmatic vision (ch. 25) governs the detailed oracles (chs. 46-51).