14 “Then the people from Babylon will run away like hunted deeror like sheep who have no shepherd.Everyone will turn back to his own people;each will run back to his own land.
15 Everyone who is captured will be killed;everyone who is caught will be killed with a sword.
16 Their little children will be beaten to death in front of them.Their houses will be robbedand their wives raped.
17 “Look, I will cause the armies of Media to attack Babylon.They do not care about silveror delight in gold.
18 Their soldiers will shoot the young men with arrows;they will show no mercy on children,nor will they feel sorry for little ones.
19 Babylon is the most beautiful of all kingdoms,and the Babylonians are very proud of it.But God will destroy itlike Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 No one will ever live thereor settle there again.No Arab will put a tent there;no shepherd will bring sheep there.