Jeremiah

¹²Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!Make the watch strong!Set the watchmen,and prepare the ambushes;for the Lord has both purposed and donethat which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. ¹³You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures,your end has come, the measure of your covetousness. ¹⁴The Lord of Hosts has sworn by himself, saying,‘Surely I will fill you with men,as with the canker worm;and they will lift up a shout against you.’ ¹⁵“He has made the earth by his power.He has established the world by his wisdom.By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. ¹⁶When he utters his voice,there is a roar of waters in the heavens,and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.He makes lightning for the rain,and brings the wind out of his treasuries. ¹⁷“Every man has become brutish without knowledge.Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image;for his molten image is falsehood,and there is no breath in them. ¹⁸They are vanity,a work of delusion.In the time of their visitation, they will perish.