13. For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his tierce wrath.
14. And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
15. Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.
16. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.
17. Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:
18. But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.
19. And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.
20. It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.
21. But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:
22. And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.