Jeremiah 25:9–29

⁹Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

¹⁰And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.

¹¹And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

¹²And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual desolations.

¹³And I will bring upon that land all my words, that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, all that Jeremias hath prophesied against all nations:

¹⁴For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.

¹⁵For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee.

¹⁶And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them.

¹⁷And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me:

¹⁸To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.

¹⁹Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,

²⁰And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.

²¹And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.

²²And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea.

²³And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut round.

²⁴And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that dwell in the desert.

²⁵And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:

²⁶And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them.

²⁷And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.

²⁸And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall drink:

²⁹For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.