Rotherham(i)
21 Against the land of Merathaim, go thou up against her, And against the inhabitants of Pekod,––Lay waste and devote to destruction after them, Declareth Yahweh, And do according to all which I have commanded thee.
22 The, sound of battle, is in the earth,––And a great destruction.
23 How, is cut and broken, the hammer of all the earth! How hath, Babylon, become an astonishment, among the nations!
24 I laid a snare for thee, yea, and thou wast captured, O Babylon, when, thou, wast not aware,––Thou wast found out, yea and taken, For, with Yahweh, hadst thou contended.
25 Yahweh opened, his armoury, and brought out his weapons of indignation,––For, a work, it is, pertaining to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come ye against her from farthest parts, Throw open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and devote her to destruction,––Do not let her have, a remnant.
27 Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,––Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment.
28 The voice, Of them who are in flight, and, Of such as are escaping, out of the land of Babylon,––To tell in Zion, The avenging of Yahweh our God, The avenging of his temple.
29 Publish against Babylon, ye chiefs of all who tread the bow––Encamp against her round about, Let there be none to escape, Recompense to her according to her work, According to all which she did, do ye to her,––For, Against Yahweh, hath she acted presumptuously, Against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore, shall her young men fall in her broadways,––And, all her men of war, be silenced in that day, Declareth Yahweh.
31 Behold me! against thee, most insolent one, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts; For thy day, hath come, Thy time for punishment;
32 So shall the most insolent one stumble, and fall, And he shall have none, to lift him up,––And I will kindle a fire in his cities, which shall devour all who are round about him.