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47 therefore[a] look, days are coming,
    and I will punish the images of Babylon,
and all her land will be put to shame,
    and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them
    will shout for joy over Babylon,
for from the north
    the destroyers will come to it,” declares[b] Yahweh.
49 Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel,
    but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:47 Literally “to thus”
  2. Jeremiah 51:48 Literally “a declaration of”