14. For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
15. Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
16. They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them.”
17. So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:
18. Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;