^{29 Ref} Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

^{30 Ref} For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

^{31 Ref} See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.

^{32 Ref} And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.