Jeremiah 51:27-33

Modern English Version

²⁷ Set up a standard in the land,
    blow the trumpet among the nations,
prepare the nations against her,
    call together against her the kingdoms
    of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
appoint a captain against her.
    Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.
²⁸ Prepare against her the nations,
    the kings of the Medes,
the captains, and all the rulers,
    and every land of their dominion.
²⁹ So the land trembles and sorrows,
    for the purposes of the Lord will be performed against Babylon,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation
    without an inhabitant.
³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;
    they have remained in their strongholds.
Their might has failed;
    they became as women.
They have burned her dwelling places;
    the bars of her gates are broken.
³¹ One courier will run to meet another,
    and one messenger to meet another,
to show the king of Babylon
    that his city has been captured from end to end,
³² and the passages have been seized,
    and they have burned the reeds with fire,
    and the men of war are terrified.

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 will come.