Jeremiah Offers the Cup of Wine to the Nationsby emmanuel_higgins

Jeremiah 25:26

And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

Jeremiah 25 belongs to the time when the seventy years of Israel's captivity were nearing their close by the first year of Darius, in 538 B.C. Within that setting the verse is part of a picture of draining a cup filled with the wine of God's wrath. That cup was given to illustrate the sentence of doom because its terrible meaning could hardly be understood.

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and their kings are among the first to drink from this cup of woe. Afterward Pharaoh king of Egypt with his servants and princes and all his people drink from the same cup. Many other nations of earth drink in turn with them, including the kings of the north far and near and all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth, until God's purpose is fulfilled.