Jeremiah

³¹One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: ³²and the passages are surprised, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. ³³For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. ³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicates; he hath cast me out. ³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. ³⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. ³⁷And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and an hissing, without inhabitant.