¹⁵For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and you must give it to all the nations to whom I am sending you to drink. ¹⁶And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence^s of the sword that I am sending among them.”

¹⁷So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it^t to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink: ¹⁸Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people; ²⁰and all the other^u people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines—^vAshkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; ²¹Edom, and Moab, and the Ammonites;^w ²²and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is across the sea; ²³and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all those who are trimmed to the side; ²⁴and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the other^x people who dwell in the desert;^y ²⁵and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; ²⁶and all the kings of the north, near and far, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach, he will drink after them.

²⁷“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink and become drunk, and vomit, and fall, and you must not rise because of the presence^z of the sword that I am sending among you.” ’ ²⁸And it will happen, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “You must certainly drink! ²⁹For look, on the city that is called by^a my name I am beginning to inflict harm, and you indeed, will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares^b Yahweh of hosts.’

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Footnotes

sLiterally “face”
tHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
uOr “foreign”
vHebrew “Philistine”
wLiterally “sons of Ammon”
xOr “foreign”
yOr “wilderness”
zLiterally “face”
aLiterally “on it”
bLiterally “a declaration of”