⁴⁹ The Lord will bring a nation against you^(A) from far away, from the ends of the earth,^(B) like an eagle^(C) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^(D)

⁵⁰ a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old^(A) or pity for the young.

² The Lord sent Babylonian,^[a](A) Aramean,^(B) Moabite and Ammonite raiders^(C) against him to destroy^(D) Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.^(E)

¹⁷ He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,^[a](A) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men^(B) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.^(C) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.^(D)

¹¹ At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind^(A) from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse; ¹² a wind^(B) too strong for that comes from me. Now I pronounce my judgments^(C) against them.”