15 For thus Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this acup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. 16 They will adrink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”
17 Then I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and amade all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me drink it: 18 aJerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 aPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people, 20 and all the aforeign people, all the kings of the bland of Uz, all the kings of the land of the cPhilistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of dAshdod), 21 aEdom, bMoab, and the sons of cAmmon, 22 and all the kings of aTyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of bthe coastlands which are beyond the sea, 23 and aDedan, Tema, bBuz, and all who ccut the corners of their hair, 24 and all the kings of aArabia and all the kings of the bforeign people who dwell in the desert, 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of aElam, and all the kings of bMedia, 26 and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and aall the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of bSheshach shall drink after them.
27 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “aDrink, be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more because of the bsword which I will send among you.”’ 28 And it will be, if they arefuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: “bYou shall surely drink! 29 For behold, I am abeginning to bring evil against this city which is bcalled by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for cI am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts.’
30 “Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,
‘aYahweh will broar from on high
And give forth His voice from His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against His pasture.
He will bellow a shout like those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A rumbling has come to the end of the earth
Because Yahweh has aa contention against the nations.
He is entering into bjudgment with all flesh;
As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,’ declares Yahweh.”
32 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,
“Behold, evil is going forth
From anation to nation,
And a great bstorm is being stirred up
From the remotest parts of the earth.
33 “Those aslain by Yahweh on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will bnot be lamented, gathered, or buried; they will be like cdung on the face of the ground.