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15 For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and you must give it to all the nations to whom I am sending you to drink. 16 And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence[a] of the sword that I am sending among them.”

17 So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it[b] to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink: 18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people; 20 and all the other[c] people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines—[d]Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 21 Edom, and Moab, and the Ammonites;[e] 22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is across the sea; 23 and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all those who are trimmed to the side; 24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the other[f] people who dwell in the desert;[g] 25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; 26 and all the kings of the north, near and far, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach, he will drink after them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:16 Literally “face”
  2. Jeremiah 25:17 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Jeremiah 25:20 Or “foreign”
  4. Jeremiah 25:20 Hebrew “Philistine”
  5. Jeremiah 25:21 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  6. Jeremiah 25:24 Or “foreign”
  7. Jeremiah 25:24 Or “wilderness”