Jeremiah 25:15-26

New International Reader's Version

The Cup of God’s Great Anger

¹⁵The Lord is the God of Israel. He said to me, “Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my great anger. Make all the nations to which I send you drink it. ¹⁶When they drink it, they will not even be able to walk straight. It will drive them out of their minds. I am going to send war against them.” ¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand. I made all the nations to which he sent me drink from it.

¹⁸He sent me to Judah’s kings and officials. He told me to go to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. He wanted me to tell them they would be destroyed. Then people would be shocked because of them. They would make fun of them. They would use their name in a curse. And that’s how things still are today.

¹⁹Here is a list of the other kings and nations he sent me to.

Pharaoh, the king of Egypt

his attendants, his officials, all his people

²⁰all the people from other lands who lived there

all the kings of Uz

the Philistine kings of Ashkelon, Gaza and Ekron

the Philistines still living in Ashdod

²¹Edom, Moab, Ammon

²²all the kings of Tyre and Sidon

the kings of the islands and other lands along the Mediterranean Sea

²³Dedan, Teman, Buz

all the other places far away in the east

²⁴all the kings of Arabia

all the other kings of people who live in the desert

²⁵all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media

²⁶all the kings in the north, near and far

So he sent me to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth, one after the other. They will all drink from the cup of the Lord’s anger. After they drink, the king of Babylon will drink from it too.

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