51 ²⁴ "I will requite Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, says Yahweh.

51 ²⁵ "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
says Yahweh,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
and make you a burnt mountain.
51 ²⁶ No stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be a perpetual waste,
says Yahweh.
51 ²⁷ "Set up a standard on the earth,
blow the trumpet among the nations;
prepare the nations for war against her,
summon against her the kingdoms,
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
appoint a marshal against her,
bring up horses like bristling locusts.
51 ²⁸ Prepare the nations for war against her,
the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,
and every land under their dominion.
51 ²⁹ The land trembles and writhes in pain,
for Yahweh's purposes against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
51 ³⁰ The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting,
they remain in their strongholds;
their strength has failed,
they have become women;
her dwellings are on fire,
her bars are broken.
51 ³¹ One runner runs to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
that his city is taken on every side;
51 ³² the fords have been seized,
the bulwarks are burned with fire,
and the soldiers are in panic.
51 ³³ For thus says Yahweh 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 her harvest will come."

51 ³⁴ "Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me,
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel,
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies,
he has rinsed me out.
51 ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,"
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
"My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,"
let Jerusalem say.