Jeremiah 51:1-5

New Living Translation

51 This is what the Lord says:
“I will stir up a destroyer against Babylon
    and the people of Babylonia.^[a]
2 Foreigners will come and winnow her,
    blowing her away as chaff.
They will come from every side
    to rise against her in her day of trouble.
³ Don’t let the archers put on their armor
    or draw their bows.
Don’t spare even her best soldiers!
    Let her army be completely destroyed.^[b]
4 They will fall dead in the land of the Babylonians,^[c]
    slashed to death in her streets.
⁵ For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
    has not abandoned Israel and Judah.
He is still their God,
    even though their land was filled with sin
    against the Holy One of Israel.”