⁹ ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

¹⁰ standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, ^(A)‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! ^(B)For in one hour your judgment has come.’

¹¹ “And ^(C)the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore: ^12 (D)merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; ¹³ and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and ^(E)souls of men. ¹⁴ The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things which are rich and splendid have ^[a]gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

^26 (A)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”

^23 (A)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries.

^12 (A)I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will ^(B)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”

Judgment on the Nations

¹⁵ For 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. ¹⁶ And ^(B)they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

¹⁷ Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: ¹⁸ Jerusalem 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; ¹⁹ Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people; ²⁰ all 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; ²² all 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; ²⁴ all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the ^(L)mixed multitude who dwell in the desert; ²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(M)Elam, and all the kings of the ^(N)Medes;