⁵² “That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will punish their idols,
and those who are wounded will moan everywhere in the land.
⁵³ The people of Babylon might go up to heaven.
They might fortify their strongholds.
But destroyers will still come from me against them,”
declares the Lord.

⁵⁴ Cries of agony are heard from Babylon.
Sounds of terrible destruction are heard
from the land of the Babylonians.