"Why is his clothing so red, like that of someone who tramples grapes to make wine?"

The LORD answers, "I have trampled the nations like grapes, and no one came to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my clothing.

I will make your oppressors kill each other; they will be drunk with murder and rage. Then all people will know that I am the LORD, the one who saves you and sets you free. They will know that I am Israel's powerful God."

You suffering people of Jerusalem, you that stagger as though you were drunk,

I will give it to those who oppressed you, to those who made you lie down in the streets and trampled on you as if you were dirt."

Let sinners bear their own punishment; let them feel the wrath of Almighty God.

You have made your people suffer greatly; we stagger around as though we were drunk.

The LORD holds a cup in his hand, filled with the strong wine of his anger. He pours it out, and all the wicked drink it; they drink it down to the last drop.

When they drink from it, they will stagger and go out of their minds because of the war I am sending against them."

So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD had sent me, and made them drink from it.

(SEE 25:19)

Then the LORD said to me, "Tell the people that I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, am commanding them to drink until they are drunk and vomit, until they fall down and cannot get up, because of the war that I am sending against them.

Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.

will themselves drink God's wine, the wine of his fury, which he has poured at full strength into the cup of his anger! All who do this will be tormented in fire and sulfur before the holy angels and the Lamb.

They poured out the blood of God's people and of the prophets, and so you have given them blood to drink. They are getting what they deserve!"

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of all countries were destroyed. God remembered great Babylon and made her drink the wine from his cup---the wine of his furious anger.

For all the nations have drunk her wine---the strong wine of her immoral lust. The kings of the earth practiced sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the world grew rich from her unrestrained lust."

For her sins are piled up as high as heaven, and God remembers her wicked ways.

The LORD will protect Mount Zion, but the people of Moab will be trampled down the way straw is trampled in manure.

He will destroy the fortresses of Moab with their high walls and bring them tumbling down into the dust.

He has humbled those who were proud; he destroyed the strong city they lived in, and sent its walls crashing into the dust.

Those who were oppressed walk over it now and trample it under their feet.

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "This is how the great city Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be seen again.