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22 The noise of battle is heard in the land.
    It is the noise of a great city being destroyed!
23 It has been broken to pieces.
    It was the hammer that broke the whole earth.
    How empty Babylon is among the nations!
24 Babylon, I set a trap for you.
    And you were caught before you knew it.
You were found and captured.
    That is because you opposed me.

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22 The noise(A) of battle is in the land,
    the noise of great destruction!
23 How broken and shattered
    is the hammer(B) of the whole earth!(C)
How desolate(D) is Babylon
    among the nations!
24 I set a trap(E) for you, Babylon,
    and you were caught before you knew it;
you were found and captured(F)
    because you opposed(G) the Lord.

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