11. “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
12. “I shall make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than the gold of Ophir.
13. “So I shall make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall shake from her place, in the wrath of יהוה of hosts and in the day of the heat of His displeasure.
14. “And it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up – every man turns to his own people, and everyone flees to his own land.
15. “Whoever is found is thrust through, and everyone taken falls by the sword.
16. “And their children are dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses plundered and their wives ravished.
17. “See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they do not delight in it.
18. “And bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spare no children.
19. “And Baḇel, the splendour of reigns, the comeliness of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when Elohim overthrew Seḏom and Amorah.
20. “She shall never be inhabited, nor be settled from generation to generation; nor shall the Araḇian pitch tents there, nor shepherds rest their flocks there.
21. “But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be filled with owls. And ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats frolic there.
22. “And hyenas shall cry in their citadels, and jackals in their pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come, and her days are not drawn out.”