Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of His fury. You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and drained it out….Thus says your Lord, the Lord and your God, who pleads the cause of his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no longer drink it.”
The LORD is a righteous judge, the Judge of all the earth. But He is surely not like King Nebuchadnezzar of old, who stood by his great furnace, continually stoking it in order to burn up those who refused to obey him.
And yet, the Scripture speaks of the fury of the Lord’s wrath, and the unquenchable fire of his judgement. How are we to understand it?
