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.
30. The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;they remain in their strongholds;their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
31. One runner runs to meet another,and one messenger to meet another,to tell the king of Babylonthat his city is taken on every side;
32. the fords have been seized,the marshes are burned with fire,and the soldiers are in panic.
33. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floorat the time when it is trodden;yet a little whileand the time of her harvest will come.”
34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;he has crushed me;he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster;he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;he has rinsed me out.
35. The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”let the inhabitant of Zion say.“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”let Jerusalem say.