The Cup of God’s Wrath

¹⁵ This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup^(A) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send^(B) you drink it.

¹⁶ When they drink^(A) it, they will stagger^(B) and go mad^(C) because of the sword^(D) I will send among them.”

¹² This is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup^(A) must drink it, why should you go unpunished?^(B) You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

¹³ I swear^(A) by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah^(B) will become a ruin and a curse,^[a] an object of horror^(C) and reproach;^(D) and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”^(E)