29 “Call for the men who shoot arrowsto come against Babylon.Tell them to surround the city.Don’t let anyone escape.Pay her back for the bad things she has done.Do to her what she has done to other nations.Babylon acted with pride against the Lord,the Holy One of Israel.
30 So Babylon’s young men will be killed in the streets.All her soldiers will die on that day,” says the Lord.
31 “Babylon, you are too proud. And I am against you,”says the Master, the Lord of heaven’s armies.“This is because the time has comefor you to be punished.
32 Proud Babylon will stumble and fall.And no one will help her get up.I will start a fire in her towns.It will completely burn up everything around her.”
33 This is what the Lord of heaven’s armies says:“The people of Israeland Judah both are slaves.The enemy took them as prisoners.And they won’t let them go.
34 But God is strong and will buy them back.His name is the Lord of heaven’s armies.He will defend them with powerso he can give rest to their land.But he will not give rest to those living in Babylon.”
35 The Lord says,“Let a sword kill the people living in Babylon!Let a sword kill its officers and wise men!