Jeremiah 51:2-4

The Voice

²     I will send outsiders to sift through this nation,
        separating the wheat from the chaff, laying waste this land.
    They will fight her from every side
        on that fateful day of Babylon’s reckoning.
³     Do not let the archers draw back their bows.
        Do not let them put on their armor!
    Do not spare the life of one young soldier.
        Destroy her army completely.
⁴     They will all fall dead in the land of the Chaldeans;
        her streets will be full of the dead and dying.