17 So he brought up against them the king of the Chal·deʹans,+ who proceeded to kill their young men with the sword+ in the house of their sanctuary,+ neither did he feel compassion for young man or virgin, old or decrepit.+ Everything He gave into his hand.

7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of Jehovah,+ she* making all the earth drunk.+ From her* wine the nations have drunk.+ That is why the nations keep acting crazed.+

19 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am giving to Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon the land of Egypt,+ and he must carry off its wealth and make a big spoil of it+ and do a great deal of plundering of it; and it must become wages for his military force.’

19 And because of the greatness that He gave him, all peoples, national groups and languages proved to be quaking and showing fear before him.+ Whom he happened to want to, he was killing; and whom he happened to want to, he was striking;* and whom he happened to want to, he was exalting; and whom he happened to want to, he was humiliating.+