5 h“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
10 See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms,
to ppluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”
The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath
15 Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this acup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
3 Send word1 to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Judgment on Egypt
1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the jnations.
59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of uNeriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, vin the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote in a wbook all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,
