Jeremiah 25:15-26

The Cup of God’s Wrath

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15} This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it.^(A) ^{Tools
16} They will drink, stagger,^(a) and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”

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17} So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, everyone the Lord sent me to. ^{Tools
18} These included:

Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an object of scorn and cursing—as it is today;

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Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officers, his leaders, all his people,

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and all the mixed peoples;
all the kings of the land of Uz;
all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

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Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

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all the kings of Tyre,
all the kings of Sidon,
and the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

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Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all those who shave their temples;^(b)^(B)

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all the kings of Arabia,
and all the kings of the mixed peoples who have settled in the desert;

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all the kings of Zimri,
all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of Media;

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all the kings of the north, both near and far from one another;
that is, all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth.
Finally, the king of Sheshach^(c) will drink after them.

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 25:16: Or vomit

b. Jeremiah 25:23: Or who live in distant places

c. Jeremiah 25:26: Probably a name for Babylon

Cross references:

A. Jeremiah 25:15: Psalm 75:8; Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 49:12

B. Jeremiah 25:23: Leviticus 19:27; Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 49:32