Jeremiah 50:21–29

²¹“Go up against the land of Merathaim,^s

and against the inhabitants of Pekod.^t

Slay, and utterly destroy after them,

says the Lord,

and 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 taken, O Babylon,

and you did not know it;

you were found and caught,

because you strove against the Lord.

²⁵The Lord has opened his armory,

and brought out the weapons of his wrath,

for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do

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.

²⁷Slay all her bulls,

let them go down to the slaughter.

Woe to them, for their day has come,

the time of their punishment.

²⁸“Hark! they flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.

²⁹“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.