Jeremiah 51:51 - 51:58

We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;

Dishonor has covered our faces,

For strangers have entered

The holy places of the house of Yahweh.

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh,

“When I will punish her graven images,

And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens,

And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold,

From Me destroyers will come to her,” declares Yahweh.

The sound of an outcry from Babylon,

And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

For Yahweh is going to destroy Babylon,

And He will make her loud noise vanish from her.

And their waves will roar like many waters;

The rumbling of their voices sounds forth.

For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,

And her mighty men will be captured;

Their bows are shattered;

For Yahweh is a God of recompense,

He will fully repay.

“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,

Her governors, her prefects, and her mighty men,

That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”

Declares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.

58 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed,

And her high gates will be set on fire;

So the peoples will toil for nothing,

And the nations become weary only for fire.”