49 “Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed,just as the earth’s mortally wounded fellbecause of Babylon.
50 You who have escaped the sword,go, do not delay.Remember the Lord in a faraway land.Think about Jerusalem.
51 ‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted.Our faces show our disgrace.For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord’s temple.’
52 Yes, but the time will certainly come,” says the Lord,“when I will punish her idols.Throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.
53 Even if Babylon climbs high into the sky and fortifies her elevated stronghold,I will send destroyers against her,”says the Lord.
54 Cries of anguish will come from Babylon,the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.
55 For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon,and put an end to her loud noise.Their waves will roar like turbulent waters.They will make a deafening noise.