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behold, I will ^(C1)send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(C2)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^(F1)completely destroy them and ^(C3)make them an object of horror and ^(F2)hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

'Moreover, I will ^(C1)eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the ^(C2)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

'^(C1)This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for ^(C2)seventy years.

'Then it will be ^(C1)when seventy years are completed I will ^(C2)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(C3)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

'I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in ^(C1)this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ^(C2)all the nations.

'(^(F1)For ^(C1)many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^(C2)repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)'"

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.'