30. Therefore, her young men will fallin her public squares;all the warriors will perish in that day.This is the Lord’s declaration.
31. Look, I am against you, you arrogant one —this is the declaration of the Lord God of Hosts —because your day has come,the time when I will punish you.
32. The arrogant will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up.I will set fire to his cities,and it will consume everything around him.”
33. This is what the Lord of Hosts says:Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.All their captors hold them fast; they refuse to release them.
34. Their Redeemer is strong;Yahweh of Hosts is His name.He will fervently plead their case so that He might bring rest to the earthbut turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
35. A sword is over the Chaldeans —this is the Lord’s declaration —against those who live in Babylon,against her officials, and against her sages.
36. A sword is against the diviners,and they will act foolishly.A sword is against her heroic warriors,and they will be terrified.
37. A sword is against his horses and chariotsand against all the foreigners among them, and they will be like women. A sword is against her treasuries,and they will be plundered.
38. A drought will come on her waters,and they will be dried up.For it is a land of carved images,and they go mad because of terrifying things.
39. Therefore, desert creatures will live with hyenas,and ostriches will also live in her.It will never again be inhabitedor lived in through all generations.
40. Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrahand their neighboring towns —this is the Lord’s declaration —so no one will live there;no human being will even stay in itas a temporary resident.
41. Look! A people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred upfrom the remote regions of the earth.
42. They grasp bow and javelin.They are cruel and show no mercy.Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses,lined up like men in battle formationagainst you, Daughter Babylon.