²⁶ Surely, her young men^(A) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced^(B) in that day,”
declares the Lord Almighty.

³⁰ Therefore, her young men^(A) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent plagues^(A) among you
    as I did to Egypt.^(B)
I killed your young men^(C) with the sword,
    along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench^(D) of your camps,
    yet you have not returned to me,”^(E)
declares the Lord.^(F)

²⁷ Your wealth,^(A) merchandise and wares,
    your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,
your merchants and all your soldiers,
    and everyone else on board
will sink into the heart of the sea^(B)
    on the day of your shipwreck.

²¹ “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.^(A)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.^(B)

³ Let not the archer string his bow,^(A)
    nor let him put on his armor.^(B)
Do not spare her young men;
    completely destroy^[a] her army.
⁴ They will fall^(C) down slain in Babylon,^[b]
    fatally wounded in her streets.^(D)

²¹ Death has climbed in through our windows^(A)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men^(B) from the public squares.