⁶⁴ And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.

⁵⁸ The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.

⁴⁰ Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

²¹ And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.

⁸ But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

⁹ What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

²⁰ The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. <A Psalm. Of Asaph.>

² And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.

⁸ And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.

¹³ See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

⁴² The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.

²⁷ And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

¹² He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.