² Declare ye among the nations,
and publish,
and set up a standard;
publish,
and conceal not:
say,
Babylon is taken,
Bel is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces;
her idols are confounded,
her images are broken in pieces.

¹¹ Because ye were glad,
because ye rejoiced,
O ye destroyers of mine heritage,
because ye are grown fat
as the heifer at grass,
and bellow as bulls;
¹² Your mother shall be sore confounded;
she that bare you shall be ashamed:
behold,
the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness,
a dry land,
and a desert.
¹³ Because of the wrath of the LORD
it shall not be inhabited,
but it shall be wholly desolate:
every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished,
and hiss at all her plagues.
¹⁴ Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about.:
all ye that bend the bow,
shoot at her,
spare no arrows:
for she hath sinned against the LORD.
¹⁵ Shout against her round about:
she hath given her hand:
her foundations are fallen,
her walls are thrown down:
for it is the vengeance of the LORD:
take vengeance upon her;
as she hath done,
do unto her.
¹⁶ Cut off the sower from Babylon,
and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest:
for fear of [from the face of] the oppressing sword
they shall turn every one to his people,
and they shall flee every one to his own land.

²¹ Go up against the land of Merathaim,
even against it,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod:
waste and utterly destroy after them,
saith the LORD,
and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
²² A sound of battle is in the land,
and of great destruction.
²³ How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee,
and thou art also taken, O Babylon,
and thou wast not aware:
thou art found,
and also caught,
because thou hast striven against the LORD.
²⁵ The LORD hath opened [this] his armoury,
and hath bought forth [this] the weapons of his indignation:
for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts
in the land of the Chaldeans.
²⁶ Come against her from the utmost border,
open her storehouses:
cast her up as heaps,
and destroy her utterly:
let nothing of her be left.
²⁷ Slay all her bullocks;
let them go down to the slaughter:
woe unto them!
for their day is come,
the time of their visitation.

³¹ Behold, I am against thee,
O thou most proud,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts:
for thy day is come,
the time that I will visit thee.
³² And the most proud shall stumble and fall,
and none shall raise him up:
and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it shall devour all round about him.

³⁵ A sword is upon the Chaldeans,
saith the LORD,
and upon the inhabitants of Babylon,
and upon her princes,
and upon her wise men.
³⁶ A sword is upon the liars;
and they shall dote:
a sword is upon her mighty men;
and they shall be dismayed.
³⁷ A sword is upon their horses,
and upon their chariots,
and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her;
and they shall become as women:
a sword is upon her treasures;
and they shall be robbed.
³⁸ A drought is upon her waters;
and they shall be dried up:
for it is the land of graven images,
and they are mad upon their idols.

⁴¹ Behold,
a people shall come from the north,
and a great nation,
and many kings shall be raised up
from the coasts of the earth.
⁴² They shall hold the bow and the lance:
they are cruel,
and will not shew mercy:
their voice shall roar like the sea,
and they shall ride upon horses,
every one put in array,
like a man to the battle,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

⁴³ The king of Babylon hath heard [this] the report of them,
and his hands waxed feeble:
anguish took hold of him,
and pangs as of a woman in travail.