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23 I use you to smash shepherds and flocks.
    I use you to smash farmers and oxen.
    I use you to smash governors and ·officers [officials; leaders].

24 “But I will pay back Babylon and all the ·Babylonians [L Chaldeans] for all the ·evil things [disasters; troubles] they did to ·Jerusalem [L Zion; C the location of the Temple] in your ·sight [L eyes],” says the Lord.

25 The Lord says,

“Babylon, you are a destroying mountain,
    and I am against you.
    You have destroyed the whole land.
I will ·put [reach; stretch] my hand out against you.
    I will roll you off the ·cliffs [rocks; crags],
    and I will make you a burned-out mountain.

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