^{23 Ref} How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

^{24 Ref} I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

^{25 Ref} From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.

^{26 Ref} Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.