27. Kill all of its people. Let them die in battle. How terrible it will be for them! Their time to be judged has come. Now they will be punished.
28. Listen to those who have escaped. Listen to those who have returned from Babylonia. They are announcing in Zion how I have paid Babylonia back. I have paid it back for destroying my temple.
29. "Send for men who are armed with bows and arrows. Send them against Babylon. Set up camp all around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay it back for what its people have done. Do to them what they have done to others. They have dared to disobey me. I am the Holy One of Israel.
30. You can be sure its young men will fall dead in the streets. All of its soldiers will be put to death at that time," announces the Lord.
31. "Proud Babylonians, I am against you," announces the Lord. The Lord who rules over all says, "Your day to be judged has come. It is time for you to be punished.
32. You proud people will trip and fall. No one will help you up. I will start a fire in your towns. It will burn up everyone who is around you."