Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from afar; His anger burns; and is heavy as the lifting up of flame; His lips are full of fury, and His tongue like a devouring fire.
All of you gather and hear: Who among them has declared these things? Jehovah has loved him. He will do His pleasure on Babylon; yea, His arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
And you will see, and your heart will rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the grass. And the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward His servants, and He shall be indignant with His enemies.
For a nation comes up against her from the north, which shall make her land a horror. Yea, no one shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall go up, both man and animal.
For, behold, I am stirring up and making go up a company of great nations from a northern land against Babylon. And they shall array themselves against her. She shall be captured there; their arrows shall be as those of a mighty, skillful man; they shall not return empty.
Polish the arrows, fill the shields; Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of His temple.
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land! Is not Jehovah in Zion? Or is not her king in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?
And I have poured out on them My disgust. With the fire of My wrath I consumed them. I have given their way on their heads, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from the extreme limits of the heavens to the extreme limits of them..