20. He says, “You are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.
21. And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider.
22. And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you.
23. And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you.
24. And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares Yahweh.
25. “Look, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction,” declares Yahweh, “the one that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away.
26. They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be an everlasting desolation,” declares Yahweh.
27. Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses like bristling creeping locusts.
28. Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion.
29. And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, without inhabitant.
30. The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken.