^{21 Ref} Against the land of Merathaim: Go up against it, and unto the inhabitants of Pekod, Waste and devote their posterity, An affirmation of Jehovah, And do according to all that I have commanded thee.

^{22 Ref} A noise of battle `is' in the land, and of great destruction.

^{23 Ref} How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!

^{24 Ref} I have laid a snare for thee, And also -- thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou -- thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

^{25 Ref} Jehovah hath opened His treasury, And He bringeth out the weapons of His indignation, For a work `is' to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, In the land of the Chaldeans.

^{26 Ref} Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.

^{27 Ref} Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Wo `is' on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.

^{28 Ref} A voice of fugitives and escaped ones `Is' from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, The vengeance of His temple.

^{29 Ref} Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let `her' have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did -- do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.