⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^[a]completely destroy them and ^(C)make them an object of horror and ^[b]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

¹⁵ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this ^(A)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it. ¹⁶ Then they will ^(B)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and ^(C)gave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it: ¹⁸ To ^(D)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^[a]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹ To ^(E)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; ²⁰ and to all the ^(F)foreign ^[b]people, all the kings of the ^(G)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(H)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(I)Ashdod); ²¹ To ^(J)Edom, ^(K)Moab, and the sons of ^(L)Ammon; ²² and to all the kings of ^(M)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^(N)the coastlands which are beyond the sea; ²³ and to ^(O)Dedan, Tema, ^(P)Buz, and all who ^(Q)trim the corners of their hair; ²⁴ and to all the kings of ^(R)Arabia and all the kings of the ^(S)foreign ^[c]people who live in the desert; ²⁵ and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(T)Elam, and all the kings of ^(U)Media; ²⁶ and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^(V)all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of ^[d](W)Sheshach shall drink it after them.

²⁷ “And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “^(X)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the ^(Y)sword which I am sending among you.”’ ²⁸ And if they ^(Z)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “^(AA)You shall certainly drink! ²⁹ For behold, I am ^(AB)beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is ^(AC)called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^(AD)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of armies.’

³ therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “^[a]For good reason they have made you ^(A)desolate and harassed you from every side, so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations; and you have been taken up in the ^[b](B)talk and the rumor of the people.”’”