52 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says the Lord,“that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;and through all her land the wounded will groan.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,and though she should fortify the height of her strength,yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says the Lord.
54 “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,and of great destruction from the land of the Kasdim!
55 For the Lord lays Babylon waste,and destroys out of her the great voice!Their waves roar like many waters.The noise of their voice is uttered.
56 For the destroyer has come on her,even on Babylon.Her mighty men are taken.Their bows are broken in pieces,for the Lord is a God of retribution.He will surely repay.
57 I will make her princes, her wise men,her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.They will sleep a perpetual sleep,and not wake up,”says the King, whose name is the Lord of Hosts.
58 the Lord of Hosts says:“The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.Her high gates will be burned with fire.The peoples will labor for vanity,and the nations for the fire;and they will be weary.”