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13 O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures,
    your end has come, the measure of your life.[a]
14 Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself,
    “Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts,[b]
    and they will sing over you a war cry.”
15 He is the one who made the earth by his power,
    the one who created the world by his wisdom,
    and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:13 Literally “the cubit of your severing”
  2. Jeremiah 51:14 Hebrew “locust”