26. They will not take from you a cornerstone,or a foundation stone;You shall remain ruins forever—oracle of the Lord.
27. Raise a signal in the land,sound the trumpet among the nations;Dedicate nations for war against her,summon against her the kingdoms:Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;Appoint a recruiting officer against her,dispatch horses like bristling locusts.
28. Dedicate nations for war against her:the king of the Medes,Its governors and all its officers,every land in its domain.
29. The earth quakes and writhes,the Lord’s plan against Babylon is carried out,Turning the land of Babyloninto a wasteland without inhabitants.
30. Babylon’s warriors have ceased to fight,they remain in their strongholds;Dried up is their strength,they have become women.Burned down are their homes,broken their gates.
31. One runner meets another,herald meets herald,Telling the king of Babylonthat his entire city has been taken.
32. The fords have been seized,marshes set on fire,warriors panic.
33. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floorat the time of treading;Yet a little while,and the harvest time will come for her.
34. “He consumed me, defeated me,Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon;he left me like an empty vessel,Swallowed me like a sea monster,filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.
35. Let my torn flesh be visited upon Babylon,”says enthroned Zion;“My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”says Jerusalem.
36. But now, thus says the Lord:I will certainly defend your cause,I will certainly avenge you;I will dry up her sea,and drain her fountain.
37. Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,a haunt of jackals;A place of horror and hissing,without inhabitants.