Literally, “A golden cup is Babel in the hand of Yahweh, intoxicating the whole earth.” Jeremiah beholds her in her splendor, but the wine…

Babylon hath been a golden cup ... —The “golden cup” points to the splendour of Babylon, outwardly, as a vessel made to h…

Here again he anticipates an objection that might have been made, for we know that the kingdoms of the world neither rise nor stand except through …

Babylon [has been] a golden cup in the hand of the Lord
Either so called from the liquor in it, being of a yellow co…

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…