Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 13:12

"Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?" — Jeremiah 13:12 (ASV)

Every bottle shall be filled with wine. —Another parable follows that of the girdle. The germ is found in the phrase drunken, but not with wine (Isaiah 29:9), and the thought rising out of that germ that the effect of the wrath of Jehovah is to cause an impotence and confusion like that of drunkenness (Psalms 60:3; Isaiah 51:17). The bottle in this case is not the skin commonly used for that purpose, but the earthen jar or flagon, the potter’s vessel of Isaiah 30:14, the pitcher of Lamentations 4:2.

Taken this way, we find an anticipation of the imagery of Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 19:10; Jeremiah 25:15. The prophet is commanded to go and proclaim to the people a dark saying, which in its literal sense would seem to them the idlest of all truisms. They would not understand that the wine of which he spoke was the wrath of Jehovah, and therefore they would simply repeat his words half in astonishment, half in mockery, “Do we not know this? What need to hear it from a prophet’s lips?”