29 The earth quakes and tremblesbecause the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand:to make the land of Babylon an uninhabited desolation.
30 Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds.Their might is exhausted;they have become like women.Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,her gate bars are shattered.
31 Messenger races to meet messenger, and herald to meet herald,to announce to the king of Babylonthat his city has been capturedfrom end to end.
32 The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire,and the soldiers are terrified.
33 For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floorat the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.
34 “Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;he has crushed me.He has set me aside like an empty dish;he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies;he has vomited me out,”
35 says the inhabitant of Zion;“Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon.Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”says Jerusalem.