Jeremiah 50:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴ Babylon has rebelled against me.
    Archers, take your places.
Shoot all your arrows at Babylon.
¹⁵     Attack from every side!

Babylon surrenders!
The enemy tears down
    its walls and towers.
I am taking my revenge
by doing to Babylon what it did
    to other cities.
¹⁶ There is no one in Babylonia
    to plant or harvest crops.
Even foreigners who lived there
have left for their homelands,
    afraid of the enemy armies.