Jeremiah 50:21-30

Evangelical Heritage Version

²¹ Go up against the land of Merathaim
and against those who live in Pekod.
Kill them and destroy them, declares the Lord.
Do everything I have commanded you.
²² The noise of battle is in the land,
the noise of great destruction.
²³ How the hammer of the whole earth
    is smashed and broken to pieces!
How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
²⁴ I set a trap for you, Babylon,
and you were caught before you knew it.
You were found and captured,
because you fought against the Lord.
²⁵ The Lord has opened his arsenal
and brought out his weapons of wrath,
for the Lord God of Armies has work to do
    in the land of the Chaldeans.
²⁶ Come against her from far away.
Open up her granaries,
and pile her up like heaps of grain.
Destroy her completely.
Let nothing be left.
²⁷ Kill all her young bulls.^[a]
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
the time for their punishment.
²⁸ Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon!
They proclaim in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
vengeance for what was done to his temple.

²⁹ Call the archers to Babylon,
all those who bend the bow.
Set up camp all around her.
Don’t let her escape.
Pay her back for her deeds.
Do to her what she has done,
because she has defied the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel.
³⁰ Therefore her young men will fall in the streets.
All her soldiers will be silenced in that day, declares the Lord.