^{1 Ref} The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;

^{2 Ref} And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.

^{3 Ref} Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

^{4 Ref} And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.