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For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: "Take this ^(C1)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it.

"Then they will ^(C1)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them."

So I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and ^(C1)gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD sent me, to drink from it:

To ^(C1)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^(F1)hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

To ^(C1)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people;

and to all the ^(C1)foreign ^(F1)people, all the kings of the ^(C2)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(C3)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(C4)Ashdod);

To ^(C1)Edom, ^(C2)Moab, and the sons of ^(C3)Ammon;

and to all the kings of ^(C1)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^(C2)the coastlands which are beyond the sea;

and to ^(C1)Dedan, Tema, ^(C2)Buz, and all who ^(C3)trim the corners of their hair;

and to all the kings of ^(C1)Arabia and all the kings of the ^(C2)foreign ^(F1)people who live in the desert;

and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(C1)Elam, and all the kings of ^(C2)Media;

and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^(C1)all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of ^(F1)(C2)Sheshach shall drink it after them.

"And you shall say to them, 'This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "^(C1)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the ^(C2)sword which I am sending among you."'

"And if they ^(C1)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'This is what the LORD of armies says: "^(C2)You shall certainly drink!

"For behold, I am ^(C1)beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is ^(C2)called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^(C3)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the LORD of armies.'

"Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them, 'The ^(C1)LORD will ^(C2)roar from on high And raise His voice from His holy dwelling; He will roar forcefully against His ^(F1)fold. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

-'A clamor has come to the end of the earth, Because the LORD has ^(C1)a controversy with the nations. He is entering into ^(C2)judgment with ^(F1)humanity; As for the wicked, He has turned them over to the sword,' declares the LORD."

This is what the LORD of armies says: "Behold, evil is going out From ^(C1)nation to nation, And a great ^(C2)storm is being stirred up From the remotest parts of the earth.

"Those ^(C1)put to death by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the ^(F1)other. They will ^(C2)not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like ^(C3)dung on the face of the ground.

-"Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; ^(C1)Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock; For the days of your ^(C2)slaughter and your dispersions ^(F1)have come, And you will fall like a precious vessel.

-"^(F1)There will be ^(C1)no sanctuary for the shepherds, Nor escape for the masters of the flock.

-"Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the masters of the flock! For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

And the peaceful ^(C1)grazing places are devastated Because of the ^(C2)fierce anger of the LORD.

-"He has left His hiding place ^(C1)like the lion; For their land has become a horror Because of the fierceness of the ^(F1)oppressing sword And because of His fierce anger."