² Announce to the nations;
proclaim and raise up a signal flag;^(A)
proclaim, and hide nothing.
Say, “Babylon is captured;
Bel^(B) is put to shame;
Marduk is terrified.”
Her idols are put to shame;
her false gods, devastated.
³ For a nation from the north will attack her;^(C)
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both people and animals will escape.^[a](D)
4 In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,^(E)
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.^(F)

⁴⁴ I will punish Bel^(A) in Babylon.
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.^(B)
The nations will no longer stream to him;^(C)
even Babylon’s wall will fall.