²⁵ In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror^(A) will reign.^(B)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.^(C)

²⁶ Surely, her young men^(A) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced^(B) in that day,”
declares the Lord Almighty.

³⁰ Therefore, her young men^(A) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”
declares the Lord.

⁴ They will fall^(A) down slain in Babylon,^[a]
    fatally wounded in her streets.^(B)