Jeremiah 51:1-5
Yahweh Sends Calamity to Babylon
51Thus says Yahweh: “Behold, I am going to arouse against BabylonAnd against the inhabitants of 1Leb-kamai2The aspirit of a destroyer.
2“I will send 1strangers to Babylon that they may awinnow herAnd may empty her land to destruction;For on every side they will be against herIn the day of her calamity.3“1Let not 2him who 3,abends his bow 4bend it,5Nor let him rise up in his bscale-armor;So do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction.4“They will fall down 1slain in the land of the Chaldeans,And apierced through in their streets.”5For aneither Israel nor Judah has been widowedBy his God, by Yahweh of hosts,Although their land is bfull of guilt1Before the Holy One of Israel.