²⁶ No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone,
    nor any stone for a foundation,
    for you will be desolate^(A) forever,”
declares the Lord.

⁴² The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves^(A) will cover her.
⁴³ Her towns will be desolate,
    a dry and desert^(B) land,
a land where no one lives,
    through which no one travels.^(C)

“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)