⁹ Therefore its name is called ^[a]Babel, ^(A)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

^17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who ^(B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

Proclamation Against Babylon

13 The ^(A)burden^[a] against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

The Humiliation of Babylon

^2 (A)“Please inquire of the Lord for us, for ^[a]Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.”

¹² ‘Then it will come to pass, ^(A)when ^[a]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ^(B)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

Judgment on Babylon and Babylonia

50 The word that the Lord spoke ^(A)against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.