20. In those days,” says the lord,“no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah,for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
21. “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaimand against the people of Pekod.Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them,as I have commanded you,” says the lord.
22. “Let the battle cry be heard in the land,a shout of great destruction.
23. Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth,lies broken and shattered.Babylon is desolate among the nations!
24. Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you.You are caught, for you have fought against the lord.
25. The lord has opened his armoryand brought out weapons to vent his fury.The terror that falls upon the Babylonianswill be the work of the Sovereign lord of Heaven’s Armies.
26. Yes, come against her from distant lands.Break open her granaries.Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble.Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
27. Destroy even her young bulls—it will be terrible for them, too!Slaughter them all!For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.