On account of this I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, and in the day of the heat of His anger.
Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the earth; a throne is not to the daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall not again call you tender and delicate.
And I will bring the four winds from the four ends of the heavens on Elam, and will scatter them toward all those winds. And there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it and against those living in Pekod. Waste and destroy after them, says Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
I have laid a trap for you, and you also are captured, Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you stirred up yourself against Jehovah.
Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow camp against it round about. Let not one of them escape. Repay her according to her work, according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, Those oppressing the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah together; yea, all who captured them and held them fast; they refused to let them go.
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.
Though Babylon should go up to the heavens, and though she should fortify her strong heights, ones devastating shall come from Me to her, a statement of Jehovah.
But she was plucked in fury. She was thrown to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were torn away and withered; the fire burned it.
Though he is fruitful among brothers, an east wind shall come. The wind of Jehovah comes up from the wilderness, and his spring shall be ashamed, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all desirable vessels.