Jeremiah 25:9–29

⁹I will summon^s all the peoples of the north^t and my servant^u Nebuchadnezzar^v king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^aw them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^x and an everlasting ruin.^{y 10}I will banish from them the sounds^z of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom,^a the sound of millstones^b and the light of the lamp.^{c 11}This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,^d and these nations will serve^e the king of Babylon seventy years.^f

¹²“But when the seventy years^g are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon^h and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,^b for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolateⁱ forever. ¹³I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written^j in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. ¹⁴They themselves will be enslaved^k by many nations^l and great kings; I will repay^m them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

The Cup of God’s Wrath

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^cx—as they are today;^{y 19}Pharaoh king^z of Egypt,^a his attendants, his officials and all his people, ²⁰and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;^b all the kings of the Philistines^c (those of Ashkelon,^d Gaza,^e Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); ²¹Edom,^f Moab^g and Ammon;^{h 22}all the kings of Tyreⁱ and Sidon;^j the kings of the coastlands^k across the sea; ²³Dedan,^l Tema,^m Buzⁿ and all who are in distant places^d;^{o 24}all the kings of Arabia^p and all the kings of the foreign people^q who live in the wilderness; ²⁵all the kings of Zimri,^r Elam^s and Media;^{t 26}and all the kings of the north,^u near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms^v on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak^ew will drink it too.

²⁷“Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk^x and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword^y I will send among you.’ ²⁸But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink^z, tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! ²⁹See, I am beginning to bring disaster^a on the city that bears my Name,^b and will you indeed go unpunished?^c You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword^d on all^e who live on the earth,^f declares the Lord Almighty.’