16. They shall drink, and retch, and go mad, because of the sword I will send among them.
17. I took the cup from the hand of the Lord and gave it as drink to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me:
18. to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;
19. to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants, princes, all his people
20. and those of mixed ancestry; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
21. Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
22. all the kings of Tyre, of Sidon, and of the shores beyond the sea;
23. Dedan and Tema and Buz, all the desert dwellers who shave their temples;
24. all the kings of Arabia;
25. all the kings of Zimri, of Elam, of the Medes;
26. all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other; all the kingdoms upon the face of the earth and after them the king of Sheshach shall drink.
27. Tell them: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink! Get drunk and vomit! Fall, never to rise, before the sword that I will send among you!
28. If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: You must drink!
29. Now that I am inflicting evil on this city, called by my name, how can you possibly escape? You shall not escape! I am calling down the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth—oracle of the Lord of hosts.
30. As for you, prophesy against them all these words and say to them:The Lord roars from on high,from his holy dwelling he raises his voice;Mightily he roars over his sheepfold,a shout like that of vintagers echoesover all the inhabitants of the earth.
31. The uproar spreadsto the end of the earth;For the Lord has an indictment against the nations,he enters into judgment against all flesh:The wicked shall be given to the sword—oracle of the Lord.
32. Thus says the Lord of hosts:Look! disaster stalksnation after nation;A violent storm surgesfrom the recesses of the earth.
33. On that day, those whom the Lord has slain will be strewn from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, they will not be gathered, they will not be buried; they shall lie like dung upon the ground.
34. Howl, you shepherds, and wail!roll on the ground, leaders of the flock!The time for your slaughter has come;like choice rams you shall fall.