51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.
52. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:
53. If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.
54. The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: