22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
24I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.
25The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left.
27Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.