Bible

Jeremiah 25:15-20

View Full Chapter

The Cup of God’s Wrath 15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

16When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.” 17So I took the cup from the LORD ’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it: 18Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed —as they are today; 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);