22 The noise of battle is in the land,and great destruction!
23 How the hammer of the whole earthis cut down and broken! How Babylon has becomea 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 opposed the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his armoryand brought out the weapons of his wrath,for the Lord God of hosts has a work to doin the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from every quarter;open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;let nothing be left of her.
27 Kill all her bulls;let them go down to the slaughter.Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
28 “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.