Look, riders come – horsemen in pairs.’ And he answered, saying, ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground.’
You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.
‘ “However, if you listen to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and do not bring loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,