14 It shall be as the chased roe,and as a sheep that no man takes up;every man shall turn to his own peopleand flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one who is found shall be thrust through,and every one who is joined to them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;their houses shall be devastated and their wives ravished.
17 See, I will stir up the Medes against them,who shall not regard silver;and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces,and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;their eye shall not spare children.
19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,the beauty of the Chaldean’s excellency,shall be as when God overthrewSodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited,nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation,nor shall the Arabian pitch a tent there,nor shall the shepherds make their fold there.