Jeremiah 50:21-23

Expanded Bible

²¹ “Attack the land of Merathaim.
    Attack the people who live in Pekod [^Calternate names for Babylon].
·Chase them, kill them [^LPut them to the sword], and ·completely destroy [annihilate] them.
    Do everything I commanded you!” says the Lord.

²² “The noise of battle can be heard all over the country;
    it is the noise of ·much destruction [^Lgreat fracture].
²³ ·Babylon was the hammer of the whole earth,
    but how broken and shattered that hammer is now [^LHow cut down and broken is the hammer of the whole earth].
·It is truly the most ruined
    of [^LHow Babylon has become a horror among] all the nations.