12For thus said Jehovah: They whose judgment is not to drink of the cup, Do certainly drink, And thou [art] he that is entirely acquitted! Thou art not acquitted, for thou certainly drinkest.
Jeremiah 49 delivers oracles of judgment against five of Judah's neighbors: Ammon, Edom, Damascus (Syria), Kedar (Arabia), and Elam. Each oracle follows a pattern familiar from the previous chapter: a declaration of coming destruction, often by military invasion, grounded in the
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