Jeremiah 25:15-28

15The Lord, Israel's God, said to me, ‘Take this cup from me. It is full of wine that shows my great anger. Take it to the nations where I send you. Make them drink this wine of punishment.

16When they drink it, they will walk like people who are drunk. They will seem to be crazy, because they know that I will send armies to attack them.’

17So I took the cup from the Lord's hand. In my vision, I took it to the nations where the Lord sent me. I made them drink the wine of his punishment.

18I went to Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah. I made the people of Judah, its kings and its officers drink from the cup. It was to destroy them all. Judah would become a terrible place. People would see that its people are very foolish. They would use their name as a curse. That is already happening today.

19I also took the cup of punishment to these people: Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his officers, his servants and his people;

20the foreign people who lived in Egypt; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (They were the kings of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the people who were still living in Ashdod);

21the people of Edom, Moab and Ammon;

22all the kings of Tyre and all the kings of Sidon; the kings of the nations around the Mediterranean Sea;

23the people of Dedan, Tema, and Buz; the people who live in the desert and who cut their hair short;

24all the kings of Arabia and the kings of the tribes who live in the desert;

25all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media;

26all the kings of the nations in the north, those who live near together and those who live far apart; the people of all the other kingdoms everywhere on the earth. Finally, the king of Babylon will have to drink the wine of the Lord's great anger.

27Then the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them that the Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says, “Drink the wine from this cup until you become drunk. Drink so much that you are sick. Drink it until you fall down and cannot get up again, because you know that I will send armies to attack you.”

28But people may refuse to take the cup from you. They may refuse to drink from it. Then you must tell them that the Lord Almighty says this: “You must drink this wine of my punishment!