1. Thus says the Lord: I will raise up against Babylon,and against those who dwell in Leb Kamai,the spirit of a destroyer.
2. And I will send foreigners to Babylonthat they may winnow her and empty her land.For in the day of troublethey will be against her all around.
3. Let not him who bends his bow bend it,and let him not rise up in his scale-armor,and do not spare her young men;utterly destroy all her host.
4. Thus the slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans,and those who are thrust through in her streets.
5. For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah,by his God, the Lord of Hosts,though their land was filled with sinagainst the Holy One of Israel.
6. Flee out of the midst of Babylon,and each of you deliver his soul!Do not be cut off in her punishment,for this is the time of the vengeance of the Lord;He will render to her a recompense.
7. Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord,that made all the earth drunk.The nations have drunk of her wine;therefore the nations are mad.
8. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed.Howl for her.Take balm for her pain;perhaps she may be healed.