Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.

Hear the words of the Lord, you nations, and proclaim [them] to the islands afar off. Say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.

Proclaim among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not. Say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Merodach is delivered up.

Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people therein.

As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because you, says the Lord, have neglected Me.

Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them, even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities. All that go forth from them shall be hunted, for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their backslidings.

They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves [for them.]

And it came to pass in the ninth month of Zedekiah king of Judah, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language you shall not understand.

The Lord shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not understand;

And it shall eat up the young of your livestock, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you grain, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it has destroyed you;

And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.

The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness; and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.

On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts.