Soon, even your best soldiers will lie dead in your streets. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.
But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.
People of Babylon, I, the LORD, promise that even your best soldiers will lie dead in the streets.
‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’
My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.
Everything on board was lost— your valuable cargo, your sailors and carpenters, merchants and soldiers.
I did terrible things to you, just as I did to Egypt— I killed your young men in war; I let your horses be stolen, and I made your camp stink with dead bodies. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!