Jeremiah 25:8-17

English Standard Version

⁸ “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, ^9 (A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^(C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. ¹⁰ Moreover, ^(D)I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^(E)the grinding of the millstones and ^(F)the light of the lamp. ^11 (G)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^(H)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^(I)seventy years. ¹² Then after ^(J)seventy years are completed, ^(K)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^(L)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^(M)making the land an everlasting waste. ¹³ I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written ^(N)in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. ^14 (O)For many nations ^(P)and great kings shall make slaves even of them, ^(Q)and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

The Cup of the Lord's Wrath

¹⁵ Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ^(R)“Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. ¹⁶ They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of ^(S)the sword that I am sending among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, ^(T)and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: