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This is what the LORD , the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them."

So I took the cup from the LORD's hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it:

Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn and cursing, as they are today;

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people,

and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);

Edom, Moab and Ammon;

all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who are in distant places ^(F52) ;

all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the desert;

all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media;

and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other-all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach ^(F53) will drink it too.