15. All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league with them shall fall by the sword.
16. And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
17. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.
18. And their bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb: their eye shall not spare children.
19. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.
21. But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
22. And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.