The Cup of God’s Wrath

¹⁵ This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup^(A) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send^(B) you drink it.

¹⁶ When they drink^(A) it, they will stagger^(B) and go mad^(C) because of the sword^(D) I will send among them.”

¹² This is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup^(A) must drink it, why should you go unpunished?^(B) You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup^(A) that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.^(B) Judah^(C) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

¹⁰ they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury,^(A) which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.^(B) They will be tormented with burning sulfur^(C) in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.