Jeremiah 50:29-40

29Summon the archers to Babylon, all who string the bow; camp all around her; let none escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do the same to her, for she has acted arrogantly against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

30Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares; all the warriors will perish in that day. This is the Lord’s declaration.

31Look, I am against you, you arrogant one — this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies — for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

32The arrogant will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. I will set fire to his cities, and it will consume everything around him.

33This is what the Lord of Armies says: Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed. All their captors hold them fast; they refuse to release them.

34Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of Armies is his name. He will fervently champion their cause so that he might bring rest to the earth but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

35A sword is over the Chaldeans — this is the Lord’s declaration — against those who live in Babylon, against her officials, and against her sages.

36A sword is against the diviners, and they will act foolishly. A sword is against her heroic warriors, and they will be terrified.

37A sword is against his horses and chariots and against all the foreigners among them, and they will be like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

38A drought will come on her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of carved images, and they go mad because of terrifying things.

39Therefore, desert creatures will live with hyenas, and ostriches will also live in her. It will never again be inhabited or lived in through all generations.

40Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns  — this is the Lord’s declaration — so no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily as a temporary resident.