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.
36. Therefore the Lord says:“Behold, I will plead your cause,and take vengeance for you.I will dry up her sea,and make her fountain dry.
37. Babylon will become heaps,a dwelling place for jackals,an astonishment, and a hissing,without inhabitant.
38. They will roar together like young lions.They will growl as lions’ cubs.
39. When they are heated, I will make their feast,and I will make them drunk,that they may rejoice,and sleep a perpetual sleep,and not wake up,” says the Lord.
40. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams with male goats.
41. “How Sheshach is taken!How the praise of the whole earth seized!How Babylon has become a desolation amongst the nations!
42. The sea has come up on Babylon.She is covered with the multitude of its waves.