28. Listen! Fugitives and refugees are coming from the land of Babylon.They are coming to Zion to declare therehow the Lord our God is getting revenge,getting revenge for what they have done to his temple.
29. “Call for archers to come against Babylon!Summon against her all who draw the bow!Set up camp all around the city!Do not allow anyone to escape!Pay her back for what she has done.Do to her what she has done to others.For she has proudly defied me,the Holy One of Israel.
30. So her young men will fall in her city squares.All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,”says the Lord.
31. “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,”says the Lord God who rules over all.“Indeed, your day of reckoning has come,the time when I will punish you.
32. You will stumble and fall, you proud city;no one will help you get up.I will set fire to your towns;it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”
33. The Lord who rules over all says,“The people of Israel are oppressed.So too are the people of Judah.All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners.They refuse to set them free.