Jeremiah 51:51-58

Modern English Version

⁵¹ We are humiliated
    because we have heard reproach.
    Shame has covered our faces,
for strangers have come into
    the holy places of the house of the Lord.

⁵² Therefore, surely the days are coming, says the Lord,
    when I will punish her graven images,
and the mortally wounded shall groan
    through all her land.
⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,
    and though she should fortify the height of her strength,
    yet from Me will destroyers come to her,
    says the Lord.

⁵⁴ A sound of an outcry comes from Babylon,
    and great destruction
    from the land of the Chaldeans,
⁵⁵ because the Lord has devastated Babylon,
    and destroyed the great voice out of her.
When her waves roar like great waters,
    a noise of their voice is uttered.
⁵⁶ Because the destroyer is coming against her, even upon Babylon,
    and her mighty men will be captured,
    every one of their bows are broken.
For the Lord is a God of recompense;
    He will completely repay.
⁵⁷ I will make her officials drunk, and her wise men,
    her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men;
and they will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,
    says the King whose name is the Lord of Hosts.

The broad wall of Babylon will be utterly broken,
    and her high gates will be burned with fire;
and the peoples will labor in vain,
    and the nations become exhausted only for fire.