23. How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!
24. I have laid a snare for thee, And also--thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou-- thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.
25. Jehovah hath opened His treasury, And He bringeth out the weapons of His indignation, For a work [is] to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, In the land of the Chaldeans.
26. Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.
27. Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe [is] on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.
28. A voice of fugitives and escaped ones [Is] from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, The vengeance of His temple.
29. Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let [her] have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did--do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.
30. Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah.