Jeremiah 50:29-40

29‘Bring all the soldiers with bows and arrows to attack Babylon. They must make their camp all around the city. Do not let anyone escape. Punish the people for the things that they have done. Do the same thing to them that they have done to others. Those people have insulted me, Israel's holy God.

30So Babylon's young men will die in its streets. All its soldiers will die in battle on that day.’ That is what the Lord says.

31The Lord God Almighty says this: ‘You people of Babylon are very proud, so I will fight against you. Now the day has come when I will punish you for your sins.

32You are proud but you will fall to the ground. Nobody will help you to get up. I will burn Babylonia's towns with fire, and it will destroy everything that is around them.’

33The Lord Almighty says, ‘People have been cruel to the people of Israel and Judah. Enemies have taken them away as prisoners. They have refused to let my people go free.

34But my name is the Lord Almighty. I am strong and I will rescue my people. I will fight hard to save them. I will bring peace to their land. But the people of Babylonia will only have trouble.’

35The Lord says, ‘I am sending an army to fight against Babylon. They will attack the people of Babylonia, its leaders and its wise men.

36They will attack its false prophets, and people will see that the prophets are fools. They will attack the soldiers of Babylonia, and those soldiers will be very afraid.

37They will attack Babylonia's horses and chariots, and the foreign soldiers who belong to its army. They will become as weak as women. The enemy soldiers will take Babylon's valuable things. They will take them away for themselves.

38There will be no rain on the land so that the rivers and streams become dry. I will send all this trouble because their whole land is full of idols. The people become crazy because they are afraid of their idols.

39Hyenas and other wild animals will live there. Ostriches will live there, too. But people will never live there again. It will remain as empty as a desert.

40Babylonia will become a heap of stones where nobody lives. The same thing happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near to them. Nobody will live there any more.’ That is what the Lord says.