^{33 Ref} This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.

^{34 Ref} Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.

^{35 Ref} A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.

^{36 Ref} A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.

^{37 Ref} A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

^{38 Ref} A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

^{39 Ref} For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.

^{40 Ref} As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.