Jeremiah 50:21-32

²¹ Go up to the land of Merathaim; go up against her, and attack the inhabitants of Pekod and utterly destroy the last of them, says the Lord; do all that I have commanded you. ²² The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction! ²³ How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! ²⁴ You set a snare for yourself and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized, because you challenged the Lord. ²⁵ The Lord has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a task to do in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her. ²⁷ Kill all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Alas for them, their day has come, the time of their punishment! ²⁸ Listen! Fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon are coming to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple. ²⁹ Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her-for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the Lord. ³¹ I am against you, O arrogant one, says the Lord God of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. ³² The arrogant one shall stumble and fall, with no one to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him.