Jeremiah 25:15-26

Expanded Bible

Judgment on the Nations

¹⁵ The Lord, the God of Israel, said this to me: “Take the cup of the wine of my wrath [49:12; 51:7] from my hand and make all the nations, to whom I am sending you, drink from this cup. ¹⁶ They will drink and ·stumble about [stagger; or vomit] and act like madmen because of the ·war [^Lsword] I am going to send among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and went to those nations where he sent me and made them drink from it. ¹⁸ I served this wine to the people of Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and the kings and officers of Judah, so they would become a ruin. Then people would be shocked and would ·insult them [hiss] and ·speak evil of [curse] them. And so it has been to this day. ¹⁹ I also made these people drink of the Lord’s anger: Pharaoh the king of Egypt, his servants, his officers, all his people, ²⁰ and all the ·foreigners there [mixed crowd]; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (the kings of the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); ²¹ the people of Edom, Moab, and ·Ammon [^Lthe sons of Ammon]; ²² all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; all the kings of the coastal countries ·to the west [or across the sea]; ²³ the people of Dedan and Tema and Buz; all who ·cut their hair short [^Lshave their temples; Deut. 14:1]; ²⁴ all the kings of Arabia; and the kings of the ·people [^Lmixed crowd] who live in the ·desert [wilderness]; ²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media; ²⁶ and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other. I made all the kingdoms on earth drink [^Cfrom the cup of wrath] of the Lord’s anger, but the king of ·Babylon [^LSheshak; ^Ca coded reference to Babylon] will drink from this cup after all the others.