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15 »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: ‘Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.
16 »‘When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I am going to send them.’«
17 So I took the cup from Jehovah’s hand. I made all the nations to whom Jehovah sent me drink from it.
18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials drank from it. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.
19 I also made these people drink from it: Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, officials, all his people,
20 and all the foreign people living among them; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of Philistia, those from the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron, and the people left in Ashdod;
21 Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;
22 all the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings on the seacoast;
23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who shave the hair on their foreheads;
24 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the foreign people living in the desert;
25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
26 all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another-all the kingdoms of the earth. Last of all, the king of Sheshach will drink from the cup.
27 »Jehovah said: ‘Say to them, This is what Jehovah of Hosts, »the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up because of the wars that I am going to send you.«’
28 »‘If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink from it, say to them: ‘This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: »You must drink from it!
29 »‘I am going to bring disaster on the city that is named after me. Do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished! I am declaring war on all those who live on earth,’ declares Jehovah of Hosts.
30 »That is why you will prophecy all these things to them and say: Jehovah roars from above. He thunders from his holy dwelling place. He roars against his land. He shouts like those who stomp grapes. He shouts against all those who live on earth.
31 »‘The sound is echoing to the ends of the earth because Jehovah has brought charges against the nations. He will judge all humans. He will kill the wicked,’ declares Jehovah.
32 »This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘Disaster is spreading from nation to nation. A great storm is brewing from the distant corners of the earth.
33 »‘On that day those killed by Jehovah will stretch from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, taken away, or buried. They will become like manure on the ground.’
34 »Mourn, you shepherds, and cry. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. The time has come for you to be slaughtered. The time has come for you to be scattered, and you will break like fine pottery.
35 »There will be no place for the shepherds to flee, no escape for the leaders of the flock.
36 »The shepherds are crying and the leaders of the flock are mourning because Jehovah is stripping their pasture.
37 »The peaceful pastures are destroyed by Jehovah’s burning anger.
38 »He has left his lair like a lion. Their land has been ruined because of the heat of the oppressor, because of the fury of his anger.«