12. Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon;Make the guard strong,Set up the watchmen,Prepare the ambushes.For the Lord has both devised and doneWhat He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13. O you who dwell by many waters,Abundant in treasures,Your end has come,The measure of your covetousness.
14. The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:“Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts,And they shall lift up a shout against you.”
15. He has made the earth by His power;He has established the world by His wisdom,And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
16. When He utters His voice—There is a multitude of waters in the heavens:“He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;He makes lightnings for the rain;He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”
17. Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image;For his molded image is falsehood,And there is no breath in them.
18. They are futile, a work of errors;In the time of their punishment they shall perish.