Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

the little owl, the cormorant, the screech owl,

the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,

I will celebrate my deliverance, and call on the name of the Lord.

You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.

Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger! You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.

Lord, you give me stability and prosperity; you make my future secure.

I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

He restored the chief cupbearer to his former position so that he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold about 12,000 gallons.

May the Lord rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!

You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.

This is what your sovereign master, the Lord your God, says: “Look, I have removed from your hand the cup of intoxicating wine, the goblet full of my anger. You will no longer have to drink it.

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

For the Lord holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”

No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

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.

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!

Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them, “Have some wine.”