Jeremiah 50:21–32

²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim,

and against the residents of Pekod.

Kill them^c and devote them to destruction.^d

Do all that I have commanded you,”

declares the LORD.

²²“The noise of battle is in the land —

the noise of great destruction.

²³How the hammer of the whole earth

lies broken and shattered!

What a horror Babylon has become

among the nations!

²⁴I laid a snare for you, O Babylon,

and you were caught before you knew it.

You were found and captured

because you challenged the LORD.

²⁵The LORD has opened His armory

and brought out His weapons of wrath,

for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts

in the land of the Chaldeans.

²⁶Come against her

from the farthest border.

Break open her granaries;

pile her up like mounds of grain.

Devote her to destruction;

leave her no survivors.

²⁷Kill all her young bulls;

let them go down to the slaughter.

Woe to them, for their day has come —

the time of their punishment.

²⁸Listen to the fugitives and refugees

from the land of Babylon,

declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,

the vengeance for His temple.

²⁹Summon the archers against Babylon,

all who string the bow.

Encamp all around her;

let no one escape.

Repay her according to her deeds;

do to her as she has done.

For she has defied the LORD,

the Holy One of Israel.

³⁰Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets,

and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,”

declares the LORD.

³¹“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,”

declares the Lord GOD of Hosts,

“for your day has come,

the time when I will punish you.

³²The arrogant one will stumble and fall

with no one to pick him up.

And I will kindle a fire in his cities

to consume all those around him.”