¹⁵This is what the Lord God of Israel said to me: Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I’m sending you drink from it. ¹⁶When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I’m going to send them.

¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand. I made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink from it: ¹⁸Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.

¹⁹⸤I also made these people drink from it:⸥ Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, officials, all his people, ²⁰and all the foreign people living among them; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of Philistia, those from the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron, and the people left in Ashdod; ²¹Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; ²²all the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings on the seacoast; ²³Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who shave the hair on their foreheads; ²⁴all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the foreign people living in the desert; ²⁵all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; ²⁶all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms of the earth. Last of all, the king of Sheshach will drink from the cup.

²⁷⸤The Lord said,⸥ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and don’t get up because of the wars that I’m going to send you.’ ²⁸But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink from it, say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: You must drink from it! ²⁹I am going to bring disaster on the city that is named after me. Do you think you’ll go unpunished? You will not go unpunished! I’m declaring war on all those who live on earth, declares the Lord of Armies.’

³⁰“That is why you will prophesy all these things to them and say,

‘The Lord roars from above.

He thunders from his holy dwelling place.

He roars against his land.

He shouts like those who stomp grapes.

He shouts against all those who live on earth.

³¹The sound is echoing to the ends of the earth

because the Lord has brought charges against the nations.

He will judge all humans.

He will kill the wicked, declares the Lord.’

³²“This is what the Lord of Armies says:

Disaster is spreading from nation to nation.

A great storm is brewing from the distant corners of the earth.”

³³On that day those killed by the Lord will stretch from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, taken away, or buried. They will become like manure on the ground.

³⁴Mourn, you shepherds, and cry.

Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.

The time has come for you to be slaughtered.

The time has come for you to be scattered,

and you will break like fine pottery.

³⁵There will be no place for the shepherds to flee,

no escape for the leaders of the flock.

³⁶The shepherds are crying

and the leaders of the flock are mourning

because the Lord is stripping their pasture.

³⁷The peaceful pastures are destroyed by the Lord’s burning anger.

³⁸He has left his lair like a lion.

Their land has been ruined

because of the heat of the oppressor,

because of the fury of his anger.

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