¹⁵This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cupⁿ filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send^o you drink it. ¹⁶When they drink^p it, they will stagger^q and go mad^r because of the sword^s I will send among them.”

¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent^t me drink it: ¹⁸Jerusalem^u and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^v and an object of horror and scorn,^w a curse^c^x—as they are today;^y ¹⁹Pharaoh king^z of Egypt,^a his attendants, his officials and all his people,

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Footnotes

cThat is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed

Cross references

nSee Isa 51:17; Jer 49:12; La 4:21; Eze 23:31; Rev 14:10
o Jer 1:5
pver 26
qSee Ps 60:3
r Jer 51:7
sver 27–29
t Jer 1:10; 27:3
uSee Jer 13:13
vSee Job 12:19
wSee 2 Ch 29:8
xSee Jer 24:9
ySee Ge 19:13; Jer 44:22
zSee 2 Ki 18:21
a Isa 19:1; 20:3; Jer 44:30; Eze 29:2

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

This 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 to whom I am sending you drink from it. They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”

So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink from it.

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

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

NLTNew Living Translation

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”

So I took the cup of anger from the Lord and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the Lord sent me. I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing. I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials, and all his people,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For 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. And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among them.”

So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink: Jerusalem 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; Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people;

KJV 1900King James Version

For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me: To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

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