24. “I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.
25. “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,declares the Lord,which destroys the whole earth;I will stretch out my hand against you,and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.
26. No stone shall be taken from you for a cornerand no stone for a foundation,but you shall be a perpetual waste,declares the Lord.
27. “Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her;summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
28. Prepare the nations for war against her,the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,and every land under their dominion.
29. The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand,to make the land of Babylon a desolation,without inhabitant.