⁴⁶ Don’t lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land.
    One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year.
        Rumors of violence are in the land.
        Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.
⁴⁷ That is why the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s idols.
    The whole country will be put to shame,
        and all its soldiers will lie dead.
⁴⁸ Then heaven and earth and everything in them will rejoice over Babylon,
    because destroyers from the north will attack it,”
        declares Yahweh.