050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 050:024 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh. 050:025 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans. 050:026 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left. 050:027 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. 050:028 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple. 050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel. 050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh. 050:031 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you. 050:032 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him. 050:033 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 050:035 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men. 050:036 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. 050:037 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed. 050:038 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. 050:039 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: