51. We have been confounded, for we heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have overwhelmed the holiness of the house of the Lord.
52. Because of this, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will visit against her graven images, and within all her land the wounded will groan.
53. If Babylon were to ascend to heaven, and establish her strength on high, her despoilers would go forth from me, says the Lord."
54. A voice of outcry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!