Jeremiah 25:15–38

The Cup of God’s Wrath

¹⁵This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it. ⁱ¹⁶They will drink, stagger, ^jand go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.” ^k

¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, everyone the Lord sent me to. ¹⁸These included:

Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an object of scorn and cursing—as it is today;

¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officers, his leaders, all his people,

²⁰and all the mixed peoples;

all the kings of the land of Uz;

all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

²¹Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

²²all the kings of Tyre,

all the kings of Sidon,

and the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

²³Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all those who shave their temples; ^lm

²⁴all the kings of Arabia,

and all the kings of the mixed peoples who have settled 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, both near and far from one another;

that is, all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth.

Finally, the king of Sheshach ⁿwill drink after them.

²⁷“Then you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Drink, ^oget drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you. ²⁸If ^pthey refuse to take the cup from you and drink, you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: You must drink! ²⁹For I am already bringing disaster ^qon the city that bears My name, ^rso how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. ^s

Judgment on the Whole World

³⁰“As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them:

The Lord roars from heaven;

He raises His voice from His holy dwelling. ^t

He roars loudly over His grazing land;

He calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes,

against all the inhabitants of the earth.

³¹The tumult reaches to the ends of the earth

because the Lord brings a case against ^uthe nations.

He enters into judgment with all flesh. ^v

As for the wicked, He hands them over to the sword—

this is the Lord’s declaration.

³²“This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Pay attention! Disaster spreads

from nation to nation.

A great storm is stirred up

from the ends of the earth.” ^w

³³Those slain by the Lord ^xon that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, ^ygathered, or buried. They will be like manure on the surface of the ground.

³⁴Wail, you shepherds, and cry out.

Roll in the dust, ^zayou leaders of the flock.

Because the days of your slaughter have come, ^b

you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.

³⁵Flight will be impossible for the shepherds,

and escape, for the leaders of the flock.

³⁶Hear the sound of the shepherds’ cry,

the wail of the leaders of the flock,

for the Lord is destroying their pasture.

³⁷Peaceful grazing land will become lifeless

because of the Lord’s burning anger. ^c

³⁸He has left His den like a lion,

for their land has become a desolation

because of the sword ^dof the oppressor, ^e

because of His burning anger.