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29 Summon archers to Babylon,
all who bend the bow.
Encamp against her all around,
let no one there escape.
Repay her for her deed.
As all she has done, do to her.[a]
For she was arrogant against Adonai,
against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore her young men will fall in her squares,
all her warriors silenced in that day.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
31 “Look, I am against you, arrogant one”
—declares my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot
“for your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:29 cf. Rev. 18:6.