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²²And with thee will I shatter man and woman,

And with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth,

And with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid;

²³And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock,

And with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen,

And with thee will I shatter governors and deputies.

²⁴And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea

All their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight;

Saith the Lord.

 

²⁵Behold, I am against thee,

O destroying mountain, saith the Lord,

Which destroyest all the earth;

And I will stretch out My hand upon thee,

And roll thee down from the rocks,

And will make thee a burnt mountain.

²⁶And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,

Nor a stone for foundations;

But thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.

 

²⁷Set ye up a standard in the land,

Blow the horn among the nations,

Prepare the nations against her,

Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;

Appoint a marshal against her;

Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

²⁸Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes,

The governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof,

And all the land of his dominion.

²⁹And the land quaketh and is in pain;

For the purposes of the Lord are performed against Babylon,

To make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,

They remain in their strongholds;

Their might hath failed, they are become as women;

Her dwelling-places are set on fire;

Her bars are broken.

³¹One post runneth to meet another,

And one messenger to meet an other,

To tell the king of Babylon

That his city is taken on every quarter;

³²And the fords are seized,

And the castles they have burned with fire,

And the men of war are affrighted.

 

³³For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor

At the time when it is trodden;

Yet a little while, and the time of harvest

Shall come for her.

³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me,

He hath crushed me,

He hath set me down as an empty vessel,

He hath swallowed me up like a dragon,

He hath filled his maw with my delicacies;

He hath washed me clean.

³⁵'The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon',

Shall the inhabitant of Zion say;

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