11. This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
12. “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
13. I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.
14. Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
15. This is what the lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
16. When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”
17. So I took the cup of anger from the lord and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the lord sent me.
18. I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.
19. I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials, and all his people,
20. along with all the foreigners living in that land. I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod.