⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^[a]devote them to destruction and ^(C)make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.

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.

²⁷ “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “^(X)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more because of the ^(Y)sword which I will send among you.”’ ²⁸ And it will be, if they ^(Z)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: “^(AA)You shall surely drink! ²⁹ For behold, I am ^(AB)beginning to bring evil against this city which is ^(AC)called by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^(AD)I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts.’

³ therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “^[a]For good reason they have made you ^(A)desolate and bruised you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up in the ^[b](B)speech of their tongue and the rumors of the people.”’”