Jeremiah 51:7New American Bible - revised editionwho pays out her due. Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord making the whole earth drunk; The nations drank its wine, thus they have gone mad. See the chapter |
I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.