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# Jeremiah 25 General Notes
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### Structure and formatting
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Some translations set poetry farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry. The ULB does this with the poetry in 25:30-38.
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### Special concepts in this chapter
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##### Seventy years
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Babylon will rule over Judah for seventy years. Because Yahweh is just, he will soon punish Babylon for their evil actions. (See: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/justice]] and [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]])
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### Important figures of speech in this chapter
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##### Idiom
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Jeremiah uses the idiom of drinking the cup of wine of God's punishment to say that Babylon will destroy all the surrounding nations and then be destroyed. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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## Links:
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* __[Jeremiah 25:01 Notes](./01.md)__
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__[<<](../24/intro.md) | [>>](../26/intro.md)__
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