Jeremiah 50:21–29

²¹“Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,

And against the inhabitants of ^oPekod.

⁷Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,

“And do ^paccording to all that I have commanded you.

^22qA sound of battle is in the land,

And of great destruction.

²³How ^rthe hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!

How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

I have laid a snare for you;

²⁴You have indeed been ^strapped, O Babylon,

And you were not aware;

You have been found and also caught,

Because you have ^tcontended against the Lord.

²⁵The Lord has opened His armory,

And has brought out ^uthe weapons of His indignation;

For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts

In the land of the Chaldeans.

²⁶Come against her from the farthest border;

Open her storehouses;

Cast her up as heaps of ruins,

And destroy her utterly;

Let nothing of her be left.

²⁷Slay all her ^vbulls,

Let them go down to the slaughter.

Woe to them!

For their day has come, the time of ^wtheir punishment.

²⁸The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon

^xDeclares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,

The vengeance of His temple.

²⁹“Call together the archers against Babylon.

All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;

Let none of them ⁸escape.

^yRepay her according to her work;

According to all she has done, do to her;

^zFor she has been proud against the Lord,

Against the Holy One of Israel.