⁵² “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
^53 (A)Though Babylon were to ^[a]mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.

^54 (B)The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,