‘Before your very eyes, I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
They reported to the angel of the Lord standing among the myrtle trees, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and at the moment the whole earth is calm and quiet.’
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria – the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to.
‘Son of man, because Tyre said about Jerusalem, “Aha! The gateway to the peoples is shattered. She has been turned over to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins,”
Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured, and all your adversaries #– #all of them – will go off into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered, and all who raid you will be raided.
This will be the plague with which the Lord strikes all the people who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.