Revelation 16:19

Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.  And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.

·        The fall of Babylon (the great city) is more explicitly described in Revelation 17 and 18. Here, it is enough to say that God gives her the cup of the wine of the fierceness (the ancient Greek word thymos, describing a passionate outburst of anger) of His wrath (the ancient Greek word orge, describing a standing state of anger).  (DG)

·        “The combination of thymos and orge connotes the strongest kind of outpouring of divine judgment.” (Walvoord)

Isaiah 51:17  Awake, awake!  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.

Jeremiah 25:15, 16  For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me:  “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.  And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”