Jeremiah 25:10-20

New International Version

¹⁰ I will banish from them the sounds^(A) of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom,^(B) the sound of millstones^(C) and the light of the lamp.^{(D) 11} This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,^(E) and these nations will serve^(F) the king of Babylon seventy years.^(G)

¹² “But when the seventy years^(H) are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon^(I) and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,^[a] for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate^(J) forever. ¹³ I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written^(K) in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. ¹⁴ They themselves will be enslaved^(L) by many nations^(M) and great kings; I will repay^(N) them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

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^(O) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send^(P) you drink it. ¹⁶ When they drink^(Q) it, they will stagger^(R) and go mad^(S) because of the sword^(T) I will send among them.”

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent^(U) me drink it: ¹⁸ Jerusalem^(V) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^(W) and an object of horror and scorn,^(X) a curse^[b](Y)—as they are today;^{(Z) 19} Pharaoh king^(AA) of Egypt,^(AB) his attendants, his officials and all his people, ²⁰ and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;^(AC) all the kings of the Philistines^(AD) (those of Ashkelon,^(AE) Gaza,^(AF) Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);