The Cup of God’s Wrath

15 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cupn filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I sendo you drink it. 16 When they drinkp it, they will staggerq and go madr because of the swords I will send among them.”

17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sentt me drink it: 18 Jerusalemu and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruinv and an object of horror and scorn,w a cursec x—as they are today;y 19 Pharaoh kingz of Egypt,a his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20 and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;b all the kings of the Philistinesc (those of Ashkelon,d Gaza,e Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); 21 Edom,f Moabg and Ammon;h 22 all the kings of Tyrei and Sidon;j the kings of the coastlandsk across the sea; 23 Dedan,l Tema,m Buzn and all who are in distant placesd;o 24 all the kings of Arabiap and all the kings of the foreign peopleq who live in the wilderness; 25 all the kings of Zimri,r Elams and Media;t 26 and all the kings of the north,u near and far, one after the other—all the kingdomsv on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshake w will drink it too.

27 “Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunkx and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the swordy I will send among you.’ 28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drinkz, tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it!