15. Shout against her all around.She has submitted herself.Her bulwarks have fallen.Her walls have been thrown down,for it is the vengeance of the Lord.Take vengeance on her.As she has done, do to her.
16. Cut off the sower from Babylon,and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest.For fear of the oppressing sword,they will each return to their own people,and they will each flee to their own land.
17. “Israel is a hunted sheep.The lions have driven him away.First, the king of Assyria devoured him,and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
18. Therefore the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:“Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,as I have punished the king of Assyria.
19. I will bring Israel again to his pasture,and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan.His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
20. In those days, and in that time,” says the Lord,“the iniquity of Israel will be sought for,and there will be none;also the sins of Judah,and they won’t be found;for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
21. “Go up against the land of Merathaim,even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod.Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says the Lord,“and do according to all that I have commanded you.
22. A sound of battle is in the land,and of great destruction.
23. How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken!How Babylon has become a desolation amongst the nations!
24. I have laid a snare for you,and you are also taken, Babylon,and you weren’t aware.You are found,and also caught,because you have fought against the Lord.
25. The Lord has opened his armoury,and has brought out the weapons of his indignation;for the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, has a work to do in the land of the Kasdim.
26. Come against her from the farthest border.Open her storehouses.Cast her up as heaps.Destroy her utterly.Let nothing of her be left.
27. Kill all her bulls.Let them go down to the slaughter.Woe to them! For their day has come,the time of their visitation.
28. Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,the vengeance of his temple.
29. “Call together the archers against Babylon,all those who bend the bow.Encamp against her all around.Let none of it escape.Pay her back according to her work.According to all that she has done, do to her;for she has been proud against the Lord,against the Holy One of Israel.
30. Therefore her young men will fall in her streets.All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says the Lord.
31. “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, the Lord of Hosts;“for your day has come,the time that I will visit you.