Jeremiah 50:21–29

²¹Go up to the land of Merathaim;^l

go up against her,

and attack the inhabitants of Pekod^m

and utterly destroy the last of them,ⁿ

says the Lord;

do all that I have commanded you.^*

²²The noise of battle is in the land

and great destruction!^*

²³How the hammer of the whole earth

is cut down and broken!

How Babylon has become

a horror among the nations!^*

²⁴I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon,

but you did not know it;

you were discovered and seized

because you challenged the Lord.^*

²⁵The Lord has opened his armory

and brought out the weapons of his wrath,

for the Lord God of hosts has a task

in the land of the Chaldeans.^*

²⁶Come against her from every quarter;

open her granaries;

pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly;

let nothing be left of her.^*

²⁷Kill all her bulls;

let them go down to the slaughter.

Alas for them, their day has come,

the time of their punishment!^*

²⁸Listen! Fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon are coming to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.^*

²⁹Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.^*