The Lord will destroy Babylon; he will silence her noisy din. Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound.
if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us,
the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,
The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!
Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.
“Sit in silence, go into darkness, queen city of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms.
I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.
The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.
“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.