16. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
17. See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
18. Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children.
19. Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the pride and glory of the Babylonians, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
20. She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; there no nomads will pitch their tents, there no shepherds will rest their flocks.