1. The word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
2. Announce to the nations;proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing.Say: Babylon is captured;Bel is put to shame;Marduk is devastated;her idols are put to shame;her false gods, devastated.
3. For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land desolate.No one will be living in it —both man and beast will escape.