18. Therefore thus hath the Lord of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I visit the king of Babylon and his land as I have visited the king of Assyria.
19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20. In those days, and in that time, said the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon those whom I shall have left.
21. Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them, said the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
22. A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction.
23. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the Gentiles!
24. I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught because thou hast provoked the Lord.
25. The Lord has opened his treasury and has brought forth the vessels of his indignation; for this is the work of the Lord GOD of the hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26. Come against her from the ends of the earth, open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.