¹² Lift up a banner^(A) against the walls of Babylon!
    Reinforce the guard,
station the watchmen,^(B)
    prepare an ambush!^(C)
The Lord will carry out his purpose,^(D)
    his decree against the people of Babylon.

“Babylon’s thick wall^(A) will be leveled
    and her high gates^(B) set on fire;
the peoples^(C) exhaust^(D) themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”^(E)

⁵¹ the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked,
    with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.^(A)

¹¹ The waters covered^(A) their adversaries;
    not one of them survived.

⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled^(A) the dwelling place^(B) of your Name.^(C)