Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.