For behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north, and they shall set themselves in array against her. From there shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest; for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return everyone to his people, and everyone shall flee to his own land.

I give command, and I bring them; giants are coming to fulfill My wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.

to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and His warriors [are coming] to destroy all the world.

Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? Shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, O Babylon, that you will even be taken captive. You are found and taken, because you resisted the Lord.

Summon many against Babylon, everyone that bends the bow. Camp against her round about; let none of her [people] escape. Render to her according to her works, according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

Thus says the Lord: The children of Israel and the children of Judah have been oppressed. All those that have taken them captive have oppressed them together, for they would not let them go.

For thus says the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent Me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of His eye.

And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of My people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

[But] a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon Me; and now I declare My judgments against them.

And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation [to] which they shall not come, [even] the outcasts of Elam.

Behold, I shall send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.

But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice [branches;] vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.

Though he will cause a division among [his] brothers, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins [and] quite drain his fountains. He shall dry up his land, and [spoil] all his precious vessels.