LEB(i)
20 He says, "You are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.
21 And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider.
22 And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you.
23 And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you.
24 And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh.
25 "Look, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "the one that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away.
26 They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be ⌊an everlasting desolation⌋,"* ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh.
27 Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses* like bristling creeping locusts.*
28 Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion.
29 And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, ⌊without⌋* inhabitant.
30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken.
31 one runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, ⌊from end to end⌋.*
32 And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and ⌊the soldiers⌋* are horrified.
33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
"The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, ⌊just a little while⌋* and the time of the harvest will come for her." 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me. 35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon," the inhabitants* of Zion will say; and "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say. 36 ⌊Therefore⌋* thus says Yahweh,
"Look, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up. 37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, ⌊without⌋* inhabitants. 38 They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions. 39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,* and they will not wake up," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 40 "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats. 41 How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations! 42 The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. 43 Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness,* a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth ⌊what he has swallowed⌋.* And the nations will not stream towards him any longer ⌊what's worse⌋,* the wall of Babylon has fallen. 45 Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from ⌊the burning anger of⌋* Yahweh. 46 Now ⌊so that you are not fainthearted⌋,* and you are afraid at the rumors* that are heard in the land— and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler—
"The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, ⌊just a little while⌋* and the time of the harvest will come for her." 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me. 35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon," the inhabitants* of Zion will say; and "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say. 36 ⌊Therefore⌋* thus says Yahweh,
"Look, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up. 37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, ⌊without⌋* inhabitants. 38 They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions. 39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,* and they will not wake up," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 40 "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats. 41 How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations! 42 The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. 43 Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness,* a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth ⌊what he has swallowed⌋.* And the nations will not stream towards him any longer ⌊what's worse⌋,* the wall of Babylon has fallen. 45 Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from ⌊the burning anger of⌋* Yahweh. 46 Now ⌊so that you are not fainthearted⌋,* and you are afraid at the rumors* that are heard in the land— and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler—