A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, `Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Madai's sighing.
Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Bavel; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.
They reported to the angel of the LORD who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, *We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in shalom.*