Your soldiers stumble over each other and say, “Get up! The enemy will kill us, unless we can escape to our own land.”
The foreign soldiers you hired will turn and run. But they are doomed, like well-fed calves being led to the butcher.
You are strong and run fast, but you can't escape. You fall in battle near the River Euphrates.
There is no one in Babylonia to plant or harvest crops. Even foreigners who lived there have left for their homelands, afraid of the enemy armies.
The foreigners answered, “We have already tried to treat Babylon's wounds, but they would not heal. Come on, let's all go home to our own countries. Nothing is left in Babylonia; everything is destroyed.”