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,