Jeremiah 25:12-29

New American Standard Bible

Babylon Will Be Judged

¹² ‘Then it will be ^(A)when seventy years are completed I will ^(B)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(C)I will make it an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in ^(D)this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ^(E)all the nations. ¹⁴ (^[a]For ^(F)many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^(G)repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”

¹⁵ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this ^(H)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it. ¹⁶ Then they will ^(I)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and ^(J)gave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it: ¹⁸ To ^(K)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^[b]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹ To ^(L)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; ²⁰ and to all the ^(M)foreign ^[c]people, all the kings of the ^(N)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(O)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(P)Ashdod); ²¹ To ^(Q)Edom, ^(R)Moab, and the sons of ^(S)Ammon; ²² and to all the kings of ^(T)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^(U)the coastlands which are beyond the sea; ²³ and to ^(V)Dedan, Tema, ^(W)Buz, and all who ^(X)trim the corners of their hair; ²⁴ and to all the kings of ^(Y)Arabia and all the kings of the ^(Z)foreign ^[d]people who live in the desert; ²⁵ and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(AA)Elam, and all the kings of ^(AB)Media; ²⁶ and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^(AC)all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of ^[e](AD)Sheshach shall drink it after them.

²⁷ “And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “^(AE)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the ^(AF)sword which I am sending among you.”’ ²⁸ And if they ^(AG)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “^(AH)You shall certainly drink! ²⁹ For behold, I am ^(AI)beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is ^(AJ)called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^(AK)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of armies.’