⁹look, I am going to send and take all the clans^j of the north,’ declares^k Yahweh, ‘and I will send^l to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and an object of hissing, and everlasting ruins.^m ¹⁰And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. ¹¹And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.ⁿ

The Cup of Wrath

¹²And then^o when the seventy years^p are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares^q Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an everlasting waste.^r ¹³And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, everything that is written in this scroll which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. ¹⁴For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.’ ” 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

jOr “families”
kLiterally “a declaration of”
lHere the subject and verb are supplied from context in the English translation
mLiterally “sites of ruins of eternity”
nHebrew “year”
oLiterally “And it will happen”
pHebrew “year”
qLiterally “a declaration of”
rLiterally “a waste of eternity”
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”