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22 This is what your Lord says –
the Lord, even your God,
who defends his people(A)
‘Look, I have removed from your hand
the cup that causes staggering;
that goblet, the cup of my fury.
You will never drink it again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you,(B)
“Lie down, so that we can walk over you.”
You made your back like the ground,
and like a street for those who walk on it.

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The Cup of God’s Wrath

15 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ‘Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.(A) 16 They will drink, stagger,[a] and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.’(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:16 Or vomit

19 The great city(A) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations[a] fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; he gave her the cup filled with the wine of his fierce anger.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:19 Or the Gentile cities