People of Babylon, I, the LORD, promise that even your best soldiers will lie dead in the streets.
But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.
But I am the LORD, the all-powerful King, and I promise that enemies will overpower your towns. Even your best warriors will die in the battle.
Soon, even your best soldiers will lie dead in your streets. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.
This war will prove that your prophets are liars and fools. And it will frighten your warriors.
‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’
You can eat the flesh of kings, rulers, leaders, horses, riders, free people, slaves, important people, and everyone else.”
The kings of the earth, its famous people, and its military leaders hid in caves or behind rocks on the mountains. They hid there together with the rich and the powerful and with all the slaves and free people.