Jeremiah 25:8-17

Common English Bible

⁸ Therefore, this is what the Lord of heavenly forces says: Because you haven’t listened to my words, ⁹ I am going to muster all the tribes of the north and my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, declares the Lord, and I will bring them against this country and its residents as well as against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and will make them an object of horror, shock, and ruins for all time. ¹⁰ I will silence the sounds of joy and laughter and the voices of the bride and the bridegroom. Yes, I will silence the millstones and snuff out the lamplight. ¹¹ This whole country will be reduced to a wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. ¹² When the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their wrongdoing, declares the Lord. I will reduce the land of the Babylonians to a wasteland for all time. ¹³ I will unleash upon that land everything I decreed, all that is written in this scroll, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. ¹⁴ Yes, many great nations and powerful kings will enslave them, and I will pay them back in full for what they have done and made with their hands.

¹⁵ This is what the Lord, God of Israel, said to me: Take this seething cup of wine from my hand and make all the nations gulp it down where I’m sending you. ¹⁶ They will drink and stagger about half-crazed because of the sword that I am sending against them.

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and I made all the nations drink from it where the Lord had sent me: