Wednesday in Season after Pentecost

15Verse 15. This is what 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 from it. 16Verse 16. And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.” 17Verse 17. So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me, 18Verse 18. to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day — Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials; 19Verse 19. Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people; 20Verse 20. all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 21Verse 21. Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites; 22Verse 22. all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; 23Verse 23. Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair; 24Verse 24. all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 25Verse 25. all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media; 26Verse 26. all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another — all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too. 27Verse 27. “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’ 28Verse 28. If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it! 29Verse 29. For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’ 30Verse 30. So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: ‘The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the grapes, He will call out with a shout against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31Verse 31. The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” 32Verse 32. This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”

1Verse 1. In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah. 2Verse 2. He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem. 3Verse 3. And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done. 4Verse 4. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. 5Verse 5. And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land. 6Verse 6. As for the rest of the acts of Azariah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?