Jeremiah 25:15-38 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee. ¹⁶ And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them. ¹⁷ And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me: ¹⁸ To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day. ¹⁹ Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people, ²⁰ And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus. ²¹ And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon. ²² And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea. ²³ And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut round. ²⁴ And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that dwell in the desert. ²⁵ And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes: ²⁶ And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them. ²⁷ And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you. ²⁸ And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall drink: ²⁹ For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. ³⁰ And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and thou shalt say to them: I The Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter his voice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall roar upon the place of his beauty: the shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall be given out against all the inhabitants of the earth. ³¹ The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with all flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord. ³² Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of the earth. ³³ And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon the face of the earth. ³⁴ Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels. ³⁵ And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to save themselves. ³⁶ A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures. ³⁷ And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce anger of the Lord. ³⁸ He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid waste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger of the Lord.