1. This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians:
2. ‘Announce and proclaim among the nations,lift up a banner and proclaim it;keep nothing back, but say,“Babylon will be captured;Bel will be put to shame,Marduk filled with terror.Her images will be put to shameand her idols filled with terror.”
3. A nation from the north will attack herand lay waste her land.No one will live in it;both people and animals will flee away.