Jeremiah 25:9–29

⁹behold, I will send and take ^hall the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ⁱMy servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^jmake them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. ¹⁰Moreover I will ¹take from them the ^kvoice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^lthe sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ¹¹And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy ^myears.

¹²‘Then it will come to pass, ⁿwhen ²seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ^o‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. ¹³So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. ^14p(For many nations ^qand great kings shall ^rbe served by them also; ^sand I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”

Judgment on the Nations

¹⁵For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: “Take this ^twine cup of ³fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. ¹⁶And ^uthey will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

¹⁷Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: ¹⁸Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them ^va desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and ^wa curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people; ²⁰all the mixed multitude, all the kings of ^xthe land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^yPhilistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and ^zthe remnant of Ashdod); ^21aEdom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; ²²all the kings of ^bTyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the ^csea; ^23dDedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners; ²⁴all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the ^emixed multitude who dwell in the desert; ²⁵all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^fElam, and all the kings of the ^gMedes; ^26hall the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of ⁴Sheshach shall drink after them.

²⁷“Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ⁱ“Drink, ^jbe drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’ ²⁸And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “You shall certainly drink! ²⁹For behold, ^kI begin to bring calamity on the city ^lwhich is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for ^mI will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the Lord of hosts.’