23. How the hammer of the whole earthhas been cut off and broken!What an object of horrorBabylon has become among the nations!
24. You ensnared yourself and were caught,Babylon, before you knew it!You were discovered and seized,because you challenged the Lord.
25. The Lord opens his armory,brings out the weapons of his wrath;The Lord God of hosts has work to doin the land of the Chaldeans.
26. Come upon them from every side,open their granaries,Pile them up in heaps and put them under the ban;do not leave a remnant.
27. Slay all the oxen,take them down to slaughter;Woe to them! their day has come,the time of their punishment.
28. Listen! the fugitives, the refugeesfrom the land of Babylon:They announce in Zionthe retribution of the Lord, our God.