21. With you I will break in piecesthe horse and his rider.
22. With you I will break in piecesthe chariot and him who rides therein.With you I will break in piecesman and woman.With you I will break in piecesthe old man and the youth.With you I will break in piecesthe young man and the virgin.
23. With you I will break in piecesthe shepherd and his flock.With you I will break in piecesthe farmer and his yoke.With you I will break in piecesgovernors and deputies.
24. “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of the Kasdim for all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says the Lord.
25. “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the Lord,“which destroys all the earth.I will stretch out my hand on you,roll you down from the rocks,and will make you a burnt mountain.
26. They won’t take a cornerstone from you,nor a stone for foundations;but you will be desolate forever,” says the Lord.
27. “Set up a standard in the land!Blow the shofar amongst the nations!Prepare the nations against her!Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz!Appoint a marshal against her!Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
28. Prepare against her the nations,the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
29. The land trembles and is in pain;for the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand,to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
30. The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting,they remain in their strongholds.Their might has failed.They have become as women.Her dwelling places are set on fire.Her bars are broken.
31. One runner will run to meet another,and one messenger to meet another,to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
32. So the passages are seized.They have burnt the reeds with fire.The men of war are frightened.”
33. For the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says:“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden.Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.He has crushed me.He has made me an empty vessel.He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.He has cast me out.
35. May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Kasdim!”will Jerusalem say.