^{2 Ref} Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.

^{3 Ref} For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.