Your motherwill be greatlyashamed,She who gaveyou birthwill be humiliated.Behold,[she will be] the leastof the nations,A wilderness,a parchedlandand a desert.
"I will riseup againstthem," declaresthe LORDof hosts,"and will cutofffrom Babylonnameand survivors,offspringand posterity,"declaresthe LORD.
Behold,the landof the Chaldeans--thisis the people[which] was not; Assyriaappointedit for desertcreatures--they erectedtheir siegetowers,they strippedits palaces,they madeit a ruin.
Thussaysthe LORDconcerningallMy wickedneighborswho strikeat the inheritancewith whichI have endowedMy peopleIsrael,"BeholdI am about to uprootthem from their landand will uprootthe houseof Judahfrom amongthem.
"She who boreseven[sons] pinesaway;Her breathingis labored.Her sunhas setwhile it was yetday;She has beenshamedand humiliated.So I will giveover their survivorsto the swordBeforetheir enemies,"declaresthe LORD.
For thussaysthe LORDconcerningthe houseof the kingof Judah:"You are [like] Gileadto Me, [Like] the summitof Lebanon;Yet mostassuredlyI will makeyou like a wilderness,[Like] citieswhich are not inhabited.
Then it will be when seventyyearsare completedI will punishthe kingof Babylonand that nation,'declaresthe LORD,'for their iniquity,and the landof the Chaldeans;and I will makeit an everlastingdesolation.
and allthe kingsof the north,nearand far,onewith another;and allthe kingdomsof the earthwhichare upon the faceof the ground,and the kingof Sheshachshall drinkafterthem.
"Thereforebehold,the daysare coming,"declaresthe LORD,"That I will cause a trumpetblastof warto be heardAgainstRabbahof the sonsof Ammon;And it will becomea desolateheap,And her townswill be seton fire.Then Israelwill takepossessionof his possessors,"Saysthe LORD.
"Her citieshave becomean objectof horror,A parchedlandand a desert,A landin whichnomanlivesAnd throughwhichnosonof manpasses.
Thereforebehold,daysare comingWhen I will punishthe idolsof Babylon;And her wholelandwill be putto shameAnd allher slainwill fallin her midst.
But the Jerusalemaboveis free;she is our mother.
and on her foreheada name[was] written,a mystery,"BABYLONTHE GREAT,THE MOTHEROF HARLOTSAND OF THE ABOMINATIONSOF THE EARTH."
