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47 The ·time will surely come [L days are coming]
    when I will punish the idols of Babylon,
and the whole land will be disgraced.
    There will be many ·dead people [corpses] ·lying all around [L falling in its midst].
48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout for joy about Babylon.
They will shout because the army comes from the north [C Persia and its allies]
    to destroy Babylon,” says the Lord.

49 “Babylon must fall, because ·she killed people from [L of the corpses of] Israel.
    ·She killed people from everywhere on [L …and the corpses of all the] earth.

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