Jeremiah 25:15-38

New King James Version

Judgment on the Nations

¹⁵For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: “Take this ^(A)wine cup of ^[a]fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. ¹⁶And ^(B)they 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 ^(C)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and ^(D)a 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 ^(E)the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(F)Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and ^(G)the remnant of Ashdod); ²¹^(H)Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; ²²all the kings of ^(I)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the ^(J)sea; ²³^(K)Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners; ²⁴all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the ^(L)mixed multitude who dwell in the desert; ²⁵all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(M)Elam, and all the kings of the ^(N)Medes; ²⁶^(O)all 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 ^[b]Sheshach shall drink after them.

²⁷“Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(P)“Drink, ^(Q)be 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, ^(R)I begin to bring calamity on the city ^(S)which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for ^(T)I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the Lord of hosts.’

³⁰“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:

‘The Lord will ^(U)roar from on high,
And utter His voice from ^(V)His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against ^(W)His fold.
He will give ^(X)a shout, as those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
³¹A noise will come to the ends of the earth—
For the Lord has ^(Y)a controversy with the nations;
^(Z)He will plead His case with all flesh.
He will give those who are wicked to the sword,’ says the Lord.”

³²Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“Behold, disaster shall go forth
From nation to nation,
And ^(AA)a great whirlwind shall be raised up
From the farthest parts of the earth.

³³^(AB)And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be ^(AC)lamented, ^(AD)or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

³⁴“Wail,^(AE) shepherds, and cry!
Roll about in the ashes,
You leaders of the flock!
For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled;
You shall fall like a precious vessel.
³⁵And the shepherds will have no ^[c]way to flee,
Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
³⁶A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard.
For the Lord has plundered their pasture,
³⁷And the peaceful dwellings are cut down
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
³⁸He has left His lair like the lion;
For their land is desolate
Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor,
And because of His fierce anger.”