Jeremiah 51:2-4

Expanded Bible

² I will send ·foreign people [strangers; or winnowers] to ·destroy [^Lwinnow] Babylon.
    They will ·destroy [^Lempty] the land.
Armies will surround the city
    when the day of ·disaster [evil; trouble] comes upon her.
³ Don’t let the archers [^Cof Babylon] ·prepare [draw] their bows to shoot.
    Don’t even let them put on their ·armor [coat of mail].
Don’t ·feel sorry for [pity] the young men of Babylon,
    but ·completely destroy [annihilate] her army.
⁴ ·They will be killed [^LCorpses will fall] in the land of the ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans]
    and ·will die [^Lthe wounded] in her streets.