27 aLift up a 1signal in the land,

Blow a trumpet among the nations!

Consecrate the nations against her,

Summon against her the bkingdoms of cArarat, Minni and dAshkenaz;

Appoint a marshal against her,

Bring up the ehorses like bristly locusts.

28 Consecrate the nations against her,

The kings of the Medes,

1Their governors and all 1their 2prefects,

And every land of 3their dominion.

29 So the aland quakes and writhes,

For the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand,

To make the land of Babylon

1A bdesolation without inhabitants.

30 The amighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,

They stay in the strongholds;

bTheir strength is 1exhausted,

They are becoming blike women;

Their dwelling places are set on fire,

The cbars of her gates are broken.

31 One 1acourier runs to meet 1another,

And one 2bmessenger to meet 2another,

To tell the king of Babylon

That his city has been captured from end to end;

32 The fords also have been seized,

And they have burned the marshes with fire,

And the men of war are terrified.

33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“The daughter of Babylon is like a athreshing floor

At the time 1it is stamped firm;

Yet in a little while the time of bharvest will come for her.”