^{20 Ref} You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

^{21 Ref} and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

^{22 Ref} and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

^{23 Ref} and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

^{24 Ref} I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.

^{25 Ref} Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

^{26 Ref} They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

^{27 Ref} Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

^{28 Ref} Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion.