27 Raise a signal flag(A) in the land;
blow a ram’s horn among the nations;(B)
set apart the nations against her.(C)
Summon kingdoms against her—
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like a swarm[a] of locusts.
28 Set apart the nations for battle against her—
the kings of Media,
her governors and all her officials,
and all the lands they rule.
29 The earth quakes(D) and trembles
because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand:
to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
30 Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting;
they sit in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted;
they have become like women.(E)
Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,
her gate bars are shattered.(F)
31 Messenger races to meet messenger,(G)
and herald to meet herald,
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured
from end to end.(H)
32 The fords have been seized,(I)
the marshes set on fire,
and the fighting men are terrified.

33 For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says:

Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time it is trampled.(J)
In just a little while her harvest time will come.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. 51:27 Hb obscure

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