21. “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,And against the inhabitants of Pekod.Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,“And do according to all that I have commanded you.
22. A sound of battle is in the land,And of great destruction.
23. How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
24. I have laid a snare for you;You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon,And you were not aware;You have been found and also caught,Because you have contended against the Lord.
25. The Lord has opened His armory,And has brought out the weapons of His indignation;For this is the work of the Lord God of hostsIn the land of the Chaldeans.
26. Come against her from the farthest border;Open her storehouses;Cast her up as heaps of ruins,And destroy her utterly;Let nothing of her be left.
27. Slay all her bulls,Let them go down to the slaughter.Woe to them!For their day has come, the time of their punishment.
28. The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of BabylonDeclares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,The vengeance of His temple.