Jeremiah 25:16-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: ¹⁸ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;