Isaiah 49:25-26
49:25 Indeed,” says the Lord,
“captives will be taken from a warrior;
spoils will be rescued from a conqueror.
I will oppose your adversary
and I will rescue your children.
49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine.
Then all humankind will recognize that
I am the Lord, your deliverer,
your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.”
Proverbs 11:8
11:8 The righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
and the wicked turns up in his stead.
Proverbs 21:18
21:18 The wicked become a ransom for the righteous,
and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.
Jeremiah 25:17-29
25:17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand. I made all the nations to whom he sent me drink the wine of his wrath.
25:18 I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!
25:19 I made all of these other people drink it: Pharaoh, king of Egypt; his attendants, his officials, his people,
25:20 the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines, the people of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, the people who had been left alive from Ashdod;
25:21 all the people of Edom, Moab, Ammon;
25:22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
25:23 the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples;
25:24 all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;
25:25 all the kings of Zimri; all the kings of Elam; all the kings of Media;
25:26 all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.
25:27 Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them that the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
25:28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says ‘You most certainly must drink it!
25:29 For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it!’
Zechariah 12:2
12:2 “I am about to make Jerusalem
a cup that brings dizziness
to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.
Revelation 17:6-8
17:6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus.
I
was greatly astounded
when I saw her.
17:7 But
the angel said to me, “Why are you astounded? I will interpret
for you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
17:8 The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss
and then go to destruction. The
inhabitants of the earth – all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world – will be astounded when they see that
the beast was, and is not, but is to come.
Revelation 17:18
17:18 As for
the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”