23. I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock;and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers.
24. I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the Lord.
25. I am against you, O destroying mountain,says the Lord,who destroys all the earth.And I will stretch out My hand against you,and roll you down from the rocks,and will make you a burned mountain.
26. They will not take of you a stone for a corner,or a stone for foundations,but you will be desolate forever,says the Lord.
27. Set up a standard in the land,blow the trumpet among the nations,prepare the nations against her,call together against her the kingdomsof Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;appoint a captain against her.Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.
28. Prepare against her the nations,the kings of the Medes,the captains, and all the rulers,and every land of their dominion.
29. So the land trembles and sorrows,for the purposes of the Lord will be performed against Babylon,to make the land of Babylon a desolationwithout an inhabitant.
30. The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;they have remained in their strongholds.Their might has failed;they became as women.They have burned her dwelling places;the bars of her gates are broken.
31. One courier will run to meet another,and one messenger to meet another,to show the king of Babylonthat his city has been captured from end to end,
32. and the passages have been seized,and they have burned the reeds with fire,and the men of war are terrified.
33. For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor,it is time to thresh her;yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.
34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylonhas devoured me and crushed me;he has made me an empty vessel.He has swallowed me up like a dragon;he has filled his belly with my delicacies,he has cast me out.