^{27 Ref} Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.

^{28 Ref} Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.

^{29 Ref} And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.