The Cup of God’s Wrath

¹⁵ This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup^(A) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send^(B) you drink it.

⁸ A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’^[a](A) which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”^(B)

⁹ A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast^(C) and its image^(D) and receives its mark on their forehead^(E) or on their hand, ¹⁰ they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury,^(F) which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.^(G) They will be tormented with burning sulfur^(H) in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

¹⁹ The great city^(A) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered^(B) Babylon the Great^(C) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.^(D)

² With a mighty voice he shouted: