¹² Raise your battle flag in front of the walls of Babylon.
    Strengthen the guards.
        Station watchmen.
            Prepare ambushes.
    Yahweh will carry out his plans
    against the people who live in Babylon.
¹³ Babylon, you live beside many rivers and are rich with treasures,
    but your end has come.
        The thread of your life has been cut off.
¹⁴ Yahweh Tsebaoth has taken an oath on himself:
    “I will certainly fill you with many enemy armies.
        They will swarm like locusts.
            People will shout their victory over you.”