9 For I will raise and cause to come up against Babylonan assembly of great nations from the north country.And they shall set themselves in array against her;from there she shall be taken captive.Their arrows will be like those of a skilled warrior;no one shall return empty-handed.
10 Chaldea will become plunder;all who destroy her will be satisfied,says the Lord.
11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,O you destroyers of My heritage,because you have grown fat as the heifer at the grass,and bellow as bulls,
12 your mother will be sorely humiliated;she who bore you will be ashamed.She will be the least of the nations,a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 Because of the wrath of the Lord she will not be inhabited,but shall be wholly desolate.Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonishedand hiss at all her wounds.
14 Put yourselves in battle array against Babylon all around,all you who bend the bow;shoot at her, spare no arrows,for she has sinned against the Lord.
15 Shout against her all around;she has given herself up, her foundations have fallen,her walls have been thrown down.For this is the vengeance of the Lord.Take vengeance on her;as she has done, do to her.