Jeremiah 51:28-30

Expanded Bible

²⁸ ·Get the nations ready for battle against Babylon [^LConsecrate the nations against it]—
    the kings of the Medes,
their governors and all their officers,
    and all the countries they rule.
²⁹ The land shakes and ·moves in pain [writhes],
    because the Lord will do what he has planned to Babylon.
He will make Babylon an ·empty desert [desolation],
    where no one will live.
³⁰ Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting.
    They stay in their ·protected cities [strongholds].
Their strength is gone,
    and they have become like women [^Cfrightened].
Babylon’s houses are burning.
    The bars [^Cof its gates] are broken.