¹⁴ “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
^(A)The Lord loves him;
^(B)He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

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.

¹⁷ “Behold,^(A) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not ^[a]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
¹⁸ Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.

²⁰ “You^(A) are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
²¹ With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
²² With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces ^(B)old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
²³ With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.

²⁴ “And^(C) I will repay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done
In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord.