Jeremiah 51:22–28

²²with you I smash man and woman;

with you I smash the old man and the boy;

with you I smash the young man and the girl;^*

²³with you I smash shepherds and their flocks;

with you I smash farmers and their teams;

with you I smash governors and deputies.

The Doom of Babylon

²⁴I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.^*

²⁵I am against you, O destroying mountain,

says the Lord,

that destroys the whole earth;

I will stretch out my hand against you

and roll you down from the crags

and make you a burned-out mountain.^*

²⁶No stone shall be taken from you for a corner

and no stone for a foundation,

but you shall be a perpetual waste,

says the Lord.^*

²⁷Raise a standard in the land;

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.^*

²⁸Prepare the nations for war against her,

the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,

and every land under their dominion.