²⁶ Come against her from afar.^(A)
    Break open her granaries;
    pile her up like heaps of grain.^(B)
Completely destroy^(C) her
    and leave her no remnant.

²³ “I will turn her into a place for owls^(A)
    and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,^(B)”
    declares the Lord Almighty.^(C)

¹⁰ So Babylonia^[a] will be plundered;^(A)
    all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.

³ I will give you hidden treasures,^(A)
    riches stored in secret places,^(B)
so that you may know^(C) that I am the Lord,
    the God of Israel, who summons you by name.^(D)

“With such violence
    the great city^(C) of Babylon will be thrown down,
    never to be found again.
²² The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.^(D)
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.^(E)
23 The light of a lamp
    will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
    will never be heard in you again.^(F)
Your merchants were the world’s important people.^(G)
    By your magic spell^(H) all the nations were led astray.
²⁴ In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,^(I)
    of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.”^(J)