¹³ Look at your troops—
    they are all weaklings.^(A)
The gates^(B) of your land
    are wide open to your enemies;
    fire has consumed the bars of your gates.^(C)

³⁰ Babylon’s warriors^(A) have stopped fighting;
    they remain in their strongholds.
Their strength is exhausted;
    they have become weaklings.^(B)
Her dwellings are set on fire;^(C)
    the bars^(D) of her gates are broken.

³⁷ A sword against her horses and chariots^(A)
    and all the foreigners in her ranks!
    They will become weaklings.^(B)
A sword against her treasures!^(C)
    They will be plundered.

“‘Cries of fear^(A) are heard—
    terror, not peace.
⁶ Ask and see:
    Can a man bear children?
Then why do I see every strong man
    with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,^(B)
    every face turned deathly pale?^(C)
7 How awful that day^(D) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble^(E) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved^(F) out of it.

¹⁵ The Lord will dry up^(A)
    the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind^(B) he will sweep his hand^(C)
    over the Euphrates River.^(D)
He will break it up into seven streams
    so that anyone can cross over in sandals.^(E)

³² This day they will halt at Nob;^(A)
    they will shake their fist^(B)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,^(C)
    at the hill of Jerusalem.