¹⁶ Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

¹⁰ But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

⁹ Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

¹⁴ So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

¹⁸ In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.

¹¹ They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

² For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.