Jeremiah 50:21-30

Revised Standard Version

²¹ “Go up against the land of Meratha′im,^[a]
    and against the inhabitants of Pekod.^[b]
Slay, and utterly destroy after them,
                says the Lord,
    and do all that I have commanded you.
²² The noise of battle is in the land,
    and great destruction!
²³ How the hammer of the whole earth
    is cut down and broken!
How Babylon has become
    a horror among the nations!
²⁴ I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon,
    and you did not know it;
you were found and caught,
    because you strove against the Lord.
²⁵ The Lord has opened his armory,
    and brought out the weapons of his wrath,
for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do
    in the land of the Chalde′ans.
²⁶ Come against her from every quarter;
    open her granaries;
pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly;
    let nothing be left of her.
²⁷ Slay all her bulls,
    let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
    the time of their punishment.