Jeremiah 50:43-45

New Catholic Bible

⁴³ News of their approach has reached the king of Babylon,
    and his hands fall limp at his side.
Anguish has seized him,
    pangs like those of a woman in labor.
⁴⁴ Behold, like a lion coming up
    from the thickets of the Jordan
    to the perennial feeding grounds,
I will in a single instant drive them away
    and appoint over her whomever I choose.
For who is there like me?
    Who can challenge me?
    What shepherd can stand up to me?
⁴⁵ Therefore, hear the plan
    that the Lord has devised against Babylon,
and what he proposes to do
    against the land of the Chaldeans:
The young of the flock will be dragged away,
    and he will completely destroy their pastures.