²⁷ Lift up a battle standard in the land.
    Blow a trumpet among the nations.
Consecrate the nations against her.
    Summon the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni,
        and Ashkenaz against her.
Appoint a commander against her,
    bring up horses like bristling locusts.
²⁸ Consecrate the nations against her,
    the kings of the Medes, their governors, their prefects,
        and every land under their domination.
²⁹ The land quakes and writhes
    because the Lord’s purposes
against Babylon stand firm,
    to make the land of Babylon a waste without inhabitants.
³⁰ The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting.
    They stay in their strongholds;
their strength is dried up;
    they have become like women.
Her buildings are set on fire;
    the bars of her gates are broken.
³¹ One runner runs to meet another runner,^[a]
    and one messenger to meet another messenger,^[b]
to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been seized
    from one end to the other.^[c]
32 The fords have been captured,
    and the marshes burned with fire.
        The soldiers are terrified.
³³ For this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies,
    the God of Israel, says:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
    at the time when it’s pounded down.^[d]
In just a little while, the time of her harvest will come.”