7 Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand.She had made the whole world drunk.The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath.So they have all gone mad.
8 But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed.Cry out in mourning over it!Get medicine for her wounds!Perhaps she can be healed!
9 Foreigners living there will say, ‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed.Let’s leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country.For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions.It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’
10 The exiles from Judah will say, ‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us!Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zionwhat the Lord our God has done!’
11 “Sharpen your arrows!Fill your quivers!The Lord will arouse a spirit of hostility in the kings of Media.For he intends to destroy Babylonia.For that is how the Lord will get his revenge – how he will get his revenge for the Babylonians’ destruction of his temple.
12 Give the signal to attack Babylon’s wall!Bring more guards!Post them all around the city!Put men in ambush!For the Lord will do what he has planned. He will do what he said he would do to the people of Babylon.
13 “You who live along the rivers of Babylon,the time of your end has come.You who are rich in plundered treasure,it is time for your lives to be cut off.