13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,

this people that is now of no account!

The Assyrians have made it

a place for desert creatures;

they raised up their siege towers,

they stripped its fortresses bare

and turned it into a ruin.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans;

This people was not,

Till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:

They set up the towers thereof,

They raised up the palaces thereof;

And he brought it to ruin.

13 Look at the land of Babylonia—

the people of that land are gone!

The Assyrians have handed Babylon over

to the wild animals of the desert.

They have built siege ramps against its walls,

torn down its palaces,

and turned it to a heap of rubble.

13 Look at the land of the Babylonians;

it is not a country now.

Assyria has made it a place for wild animals.

Assyria built towers to attack it;

the soldiers took all the treasures from its cities,

and they turned it into ruins.

13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people did not exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert: they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof; he brought it to ruin.

13 Look at the land of the Babylonians. 

These people will be gone. 

Assyria gave this land to the desert animals. 

Assyria set up battle towers, 

stripped palaces bare, 

and turned these places into ruins. 

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans—

a people who no longer exist.

Assyria destined it for desert creatures.

They set up their siege towers

and stripped its palaces.

They made it a ruin.

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild animals. They erected their siege towers, they tore down her palaces, they made her a ruin.

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans!

This people no longer exists.

Assyria destined it for wild animals.

They erected its siege towers;

they demolished its citadel fortresses.

It made her like a ruin.

13 Look at the land of the Babylonians.

No one lives there anymore.

The Assyrians have turned it

into a place for desert creatures.

They built their towers in order to attack it.

They took everything out of its forts.

They knocked all of its buildings down.

13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.