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But from God who decides,
    who brings some low and raises others high.(A)

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In the hand of the Lord is a cup
    full of foaming wine mixed(A) with spices;
he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth
    drink it down to its very dregs.(B)

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16 As you drank[a] upon my holy mountain,
    so will all the nations drink continually.
Yes, they will drink and swallow,
    and will become as though they had not been.

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Footnotes

  1. 16 As you drank: i.e., Judah has suffered the punishment of divine wrath in 587 B.C. The oracle promises a similar fate for the nations, especially Edom (v. 18). The metaphor “drinking the cup of God’s wrath” occurs often in the Bible; cf. Jb 21:20; Is 51:17–23; Jer 25:15–16; Rev 14:10.

16 Just as you drank(A) on my holy hill,(B)
    so all the nations will drink(C) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.(D)

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22 Jesus said in reply, “You do not know what you are asking.[a] Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” They said to him, “We can.”

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Footnotes

  1. 20:22 You do not know what you are asking: the Greek verbs are plural and, with the rest of the verse, indicate that the answer is addressed not to the woman but to her sons. Drink the cup: see note on Mk 10:38–40. Matthew omits the Marcan “or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized” (Mk 10:38).

22 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup(A) I am going to drink?”

“We can,” they answered.

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10 will also drink the wine of God’s fury,[a] poured full strength into the cup of his wrath, and will be tormented in burning sulfur before the holy angels and before the Lamb.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:10–11 The wine of God’s fury: image taken from Is 51:17; Jer 25:15–16; 49:12; 51:7; Ez 23:31–34. Eternal punishment in the fiery pool of burning sulfur (or “fire and brimstone”; cf. Gn 19:24) is also reserved for the Devil, the beast, and the false prophet (Rev 19:20; 20:10; 21:8).

10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury,(A) which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.(B) They will be tormented with burning sulfur(C) in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

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