29. So the land trembles and sorrows,for the purposes of the Lord will be performed against Babylon,to make the land of Babylon a desolationwithout an inhabitant.
30. The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;they have remained in their strongholds.Their might has failed;they became as women.They have burned her dwelling places;the bars of her gates are broken.
31. One courier will run to meet another,and one messenger to meet another,to show the king of Babylonthat his city has been captured from end to end,
32. and the passages have been seized,and they have burned the reeds with fire,and the men of war are terrified.
33. For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor,it is time to thresh her;yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.