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10 See, (A)I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms,
(B)To uproot and to tear down,
To cause to perish and to pull down,
(C)To build and to plant.”

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15 For thus Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this (A)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. 16 They will (B)drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

17 Then I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and (C)made all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me drink it: 18 (D)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 (E)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people, 20 and all the [a](F)foreign people, all the kings of the (G)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the (H)Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of (I)Ashdod), 21 (J)Edom, (K)Moab, and the sons of (L)Ammon, 22 and all the kings of (M)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of (N)the coastlands which are beyond the sea, 23 and (O)Dedan, Tema, (P)Buz, and all who (Q)cut [b]the corners of their hair, 24 and all the kings of (R)Arabia and all the kings of the [c](S)foreign people who dwell in the desert, 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of (T)Elam, and all the kings of (U)Media, 26 and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and (V)all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of [d](W)Sheshach shall drink after them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:20 Or mixed multitude
  2. Jeremiah 25:23 Or fringes of the desert
  3. Jeremiah 25:24 Or mixed multitude
  4. Jeremiah 25:26 Cryptic name for Babylon