New Living Translation

Jeremiah 25:14-23 New Living Translation (NLT)

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.

21. Then I gave the cup to the nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon,

22. and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea.

23. I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places.