“Look, I’m going to stir up a destroying wind
    against Babylon and the inhabitants of Leb-kamai.^[a]
2 I’ll send foreigners to Babylon,
    and they’ll winnow her,
        and devastate^[b] her land.
They’ll come against her from every side
    on the day of her^[c] disaster.
³ Don’t let the archer^[d] bend the bow;
    don’t let him rise up in his armor.
Don’t spare her young men.
    Completely destroy her entire army.
⁴ The slain will fall in the land of Chaldea,
    pierced through in her streets.
⁵ Indeed, Israel and Judah haven’t been
    abandoned^[e] by their^[f] God,
by the Lord of the Heavenly Armies,
    although their land is full of guilt
        against the Holy One of Israel.”