^(B)“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My ^(C)sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal ^(D)on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
^18 (E)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them ^(F)fatlings of Bashan.
¹⁹ You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
^20 (G)You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
^(H)With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.

²¹ “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of ^(A)Pekod.
^[a]Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do ^(B)according to all that I have commanded you.
^22 (C)A sound of battle is in the land,
And of great destruction.
²³ How ^(D)the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
²⁴ I have laid a snare for you;
You have indeed been ^(E)trapped, O Babylon,
And you were not aware;
You have been found and also caught,
Because you have ^(F)contended against the Lord.
²⁵ The Lord has opened His armory,
And has brought out ^(G)the weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
²⁶ Come against her from the farthest border;
Open her storehouses;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins,
And destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her be left.
²⁷ Slay all her ^(H)bulls,
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them!
For their day has come, the time of ^(I)their punishment.
²⁸ The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon
^(J)Declares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance of His temple.

²⁹ “Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them ^[b]escape.
^(K)Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
^(L)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
^30 (M)Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets,
And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord.
³¹ “Behold, I am against you,
O most haughty one!” says the Lord God of hosts;
“For your day has come,
^[c]The time that I will punish you.
³² The most ^(N)proud shall stumble and fall,
And no one will raise him up;
^(O)I will kindle a fire in his cities,
And it will devour all around him.”