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Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh`s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
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God's Sovereign Instrument
Commentators explain that Babylon's great power was not an accident. God Himself used the splendid Babylonian empire—the 'golden cup in Jehovah's hand'—as His chosen instrument to execute judgment on other sinful nations. This demonstrates that God is sovereign over world affairs, using even wicked empires to fulfill His purposes before bringing judgment upon them in turn.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Literally, “A golden cup is Babel in the hand of Yahweh, intoxicating the whole earth.” Jeremiah beholds her in her splendor, but the wine…
19th Century
Anglican
Babylon hath been a golden cup ... —The “golden cup” points to the splendour of Babylon, outwardly, as a vessel made to h…
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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,…
