And all the articles of the house of God, the large and the small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king and his leaders, he brought all to Babylon.
Let My outcasts stay with you, Moab. Be a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer. For the exacter has ended, destruction has failed; the trampler is ended out of the land.
A harsh vision is revealed to me; the one betraying betrays, and the one ravaging ravages. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.
And I will make them eat their own flesh, those who oppress you; and they shall be drunk by their own blood, as with fresh wine. And all flesh shall know that I Jehovah am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
And you forget your Maker, Jehovah, who has stretched out the heavens and founded the earth. And you dread continually, every day, from the fury of the oppressor, since he was ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the one oppressing?
But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and, Put your back to the ground, and be as the street to those who cross.
You shall be established in righteousness; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near to you.
I will even make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.
And it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a chastening and a horror, to the nations which are round about you, when I shall execute against you judgments in anger and in fury and in chastisements among them. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
And wherever the sons of men, the animals of the field, and the fowl of the heavens dwell, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the ruin of beasts terrify them because of the blood of men and the violence of the land, the city, and all those dwelling in it.
And I saw the woman being drunk from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And seeing her, I wondered with a great wonder.
and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city having been clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and having been adorned with gold and precious stone, and pearls!