12 but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt—oracle of the Lord. Their land I will turn into everlasting waste.
13 Against that land I will fulfill all the words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
14 They also shall serve many nations and great kings, and thus I will repay them according to their own deeds and according to the works of their hands.
15 For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and have all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.
16 They shall drink, and retch, and go mad, because of the sword I will send among them.
17 I took the cup from the hand of the Lord and gave it as drink to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me:
18 to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;