‘God will throw you down, Babylon!
    You are a great city, but God will throw you down like this stone.
    Nobody will ever see you again!
²² Nobody will ever hear music in the city again.
    Nobody will sing there.
    Nobody will make music with harps, or with flutes, or with trumpets.
    There will never be workers who make things in the city.
    Nobody will ever hear the sound of people who make flour again.
²³ No light from people's lamps will ever shine in the city again.
    Nobody will ever hear the happy voices of a man and a woman when they marry.
    Your traders were the most powerful people on the earth.
    You used your magic to deceive people from all nations.