Jeremiah 25:9–29

⁹ⁿbehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^omy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^pand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. ¹⁰Moreover, ^qI will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^rthe grinding of the millstones and ^sthe light of the lamp. ^11pThis whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^tthese nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^useventy years. ¹²Then after ^useventy years are completed, ^vI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^vthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^vmaking the land an everlasting waste. ¹³I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written ^win this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. ^14xFor many nations ^xand great kings shall make slaves even of them, ^yand I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath

¹⁵Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ^z“Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. ¹⁶They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of ^athe sword that I am sending among them.”

¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, ^band made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: ^18cJerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^dto make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; ^19ePharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, ²⁰and ^fall the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of ^gthe land of Uz and all the kings of ^hthe land of the Philistines (^hAshkelon, ^hGaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ⁱAshdod); ^21jEdom, ^kMoab, and the sons of ^lAmmon; ²²all the kings of ^mTyre, all the kings of ^mSidon, and the kings of the coastland across ⁿthe sea; ^23oDedan, ^pTema, ^qBuz, and all who cut ^rthe corners of their hair; ²⁴all the ^skings of Arabia and all the kings of ^fthe mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; ²⁵all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^tElam, and all the kings of ^uMedia; ²⁶all the kings of ^vthe north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of ^wBabylon¹ shall drink.

²⁷“Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^xDrink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of ^ythe sword that I am sending among you.’

²⁸“And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^zYou must drink! ²⁹For behold, ^aI begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, ^yfor I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’