11. That whole area will be an empty desert, and these nations will be slaves of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
12. “But when the seventy years have passed, I will punish the king of Babylon and his entire nation for their evil,” says the Lord. “I will make that land a desert forever.
13. I will make happen all the terrible things I said about Babylonia—everything Jeremiah prophesied about all those foreign nations, the warnings written in this book.
14. Even the Babylonians will have to serve many nations and many great kings. I will give them the punishment they deserve for all their own hands have done.”
15. The Lord, the God of Israel, said this to me: “My anger is like the wine in a cup. Take it from my hand and make all the nations, to whom I am sending you, drink all of my anger from this cup.
16. They will drink my anger and stumble about and act like madmen because of the war I am going to send among them.”
17. So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and went to those nations and made them drink from it.
18. I served this wine to the people of Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and the kings and officers of Judah, so they would become a ruin. Then people would be shocked and would insult them and speak evil of them. And so it has been to this day.
19. I also made these people drink of the Lord’s anger: the king of Egypt, his servants, his officers, all his people,
20. and all the foreigners there; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (the kings of the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);
21. the people of Edom, Moab, and Ammon;
22. all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; all the kings of the coastal countries to the west;