14. For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
15. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
16. They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send amongst them.”
17. Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the Lord had sent me:
18. Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;