2 Foreign soldiers will comefrom every direction,and when the disaster is over,Babylonia will be emptyand worthless.
3 I will tell these soldiers,“Attack quickly,before the Babylonianscan string their bowsor put on their armour.Kill their best soldiersand destroy their army!”
4 Their troops will fall woundedin the streets of Babylon.
5 Everyone in Israel and Judahis guilty.But I, the Lord All-Powerful,their holy God,have not abandoned them.
6 Get out of Babylon!Run for your lives!If you stay, you will be killedwhen I take revenge on the cityand punish it for its sins.
7 Babylon was my golden cup,filled with the wineof my anger.The nations of the worldgot drunk on this wineand went insane.
8 But suddenly, Babylon will falland be destroyed.I, the Lord, told the foreignerswho lived there,“Weep for the city!Get medicine for its wounds;perhaps they will heal.”