⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘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 nations round about; and I will ^[a]utterly destroy them and ^(C)make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

¹⁵ For thus the Lord, 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 Lord’s hand and ^(C)made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: ^18 (D)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a 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 the corners of their hair; ²⁴ and all the kings of ^(R)Arabia and all the kings of the ^[b](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 ^[c](W)Sheshach shall drink after them.

²⁷ “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord 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 the Lord of hosts: “^(AA)You shall surely drink! ²⁹ For behold, I am ^(AB)beginning to work calamity in this city which is ^(AC)called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for ^(AD)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of hosts.’

³ therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “^[a]For good reason they have made you ^(A)desolate and crushed 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)talk and the whispering of the people.”’”