Therefore is the name of it called Bavel; because YY did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did YY scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of TZiyon, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Bavel; there shalt thou be delivered; there YY shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
And they shall waste the land of Ashur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Ashurn, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gat of the Plishtim: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith YY , and do according to all that I have Commanded thee.
At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Bavel, sent letters and a present to Hizkiyah-yahu: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that YY shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Ashur, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And YY gave Yhoyakhim king of Yhudah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of Elohim: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his Elohim; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his Elohim.
Enquire, I pray thee, of YY for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Bavel maketh war against us; if so be that YY will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.