Jeremiah 50:21-27

English Standard Version

²¹ “Go up against the land of Merathaim,^[a]
    and against the inhabitants of Pekod.^[b]
Kill, ^(A)and devote them to destruction,^[c]
declares the Lord,
    and do all that I have commanded you.
^22 (B)The noise of battle is in the land,
    and great destruction!
^23 (C)How the hammer of the whole earth
    is cut down and broken!
^(D)How Babylon ^(E)has become
    a horror among the nations!
^24 (F)I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon,
    and ^(G)you did not know it;
you were found and caught,
    because you opposed the Lord.
²⁵ The Lord has opened his armory
    and brought out ^(H)the weapons of his wrath,
for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do
    in the land of the Chaldeans.
²⁶ Come against her from every quarter;
    open her granaries;
^(I)pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;
    let nothing be left of her.
²⁷ Kill all ^(J)her bulls;
    let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
    ^(K)the time of their punishment.