MKJV(i)
20 You are My war-club and weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms.
21 And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider; and with you I will shatter the chariot and his rider.
22 Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl.
23 I will also shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And with you I will shatter the farmer and his team; and with you I will shatter heads and rulers.
24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Jehovah.
25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says Jehovah, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand on you and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
26 And they shall not take a stone from you for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be a waste forever, says Jehovah.
27 Set up a banner in the land; blow a trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations against her. Call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her; set a commander against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.
28 Consecrate nations against her, with the kings of the Medes, her governors and all her rulers, and all the land of his kingdom.
29 And the land shall tremble and writhe. For every purpose of Jehovah shall be done against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desert without inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting; they have remained in strongholds; their might has failed. They became like women; they have burned her houses; her bars are broken.
31 A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end to end;
32 and that the fords are stopped. And they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
33 For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;
35 the violence done to me and to my flesh shall be on Babylon; the dweller in Zion shall say. And, My blood shall be on the people of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.
36 So Jehovah says this: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says Jehovah.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
41 How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43 Her cities are a desert, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 My people, go out of her midst; and let each man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah.
46 And let not your heart faint, nor fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land. The report shall come in a year. And after that a report shall come in another year; and violence shall be in the land, ruler against ruler.