14. Yes, many great nations and powerful kings will enslave them, and I will pay them back in full for what they have done and made with their hands.
15. This is what the Lord, God of Israel, said to me: Take this seething cup of wine from my hand and make all the nations gulp it down where I’m sending you.
16. They will drink and stagger about half-crazed because of the sword that I am sending against them.
17. So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and I made all the nations drink from it where the Lord had sent me:
18. Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials. This was to make them a wasteland, an object of horror, shock, and cursing, as it is today;