Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 49:12

12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup , have assuredly drunken, and art thou he that shalt altogether go unpunished, thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

That by the cup is meant the Wine cup of the Lords wrath, and that by those whose judgment was not to drink of it, are meant the Jews is not to be doubted, but the question is how the Prophet saith, that it was not the judgment of the Jews to drink of this cup? the word here used is of so various significations as makes the fixing the sense of it here difficult, it cannot here signifie Iustice, for in that sense it was the Jews Iudgment to drink of it, nor can it here (as it often doth) signifie the effect of justice, Gods judicial dispensation; for they had drank of it, so it was their judgment. It must be taken in the favourablest sense imaginable. Either they who in regard of their relation to God, and Gods relation to them might have looked upon it as none of their portion, yet have drank of it. Or they who in comparison with others did not deserve to drink of the cup, yet have drank of it, and can you think to escape, no thou shalt not escape, but most surely drink of it, 1 Pet. 4.17. The time is come, that judgment is begun at the house of God, and if it first begin with that where shall the end of others be? When an Israelite hath not escaped the justice of God, an Edomite must not expect it.

Marginal references: chap. 25.[illegible: 1 letter]9▪ Obad. 16.