“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

Thus says the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“For your sake I have sent to Babylon,
And will bring them all down as fugitives,

Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice.

“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.

Come to her from the farthest border;

Open up her barns,

Pile her up like heaps
And

utterly destroy her,

Let nothing be left to her.

“Let not him who

bends his bow bend it,

Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor;

So do not spare her young men;
Devote all her army to destruction.

The name

“His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.

The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.

and say, ‘You, O Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’

Remnant

therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

General references

Anyone who is found will be thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.