15. Shout against her on every side!She surrenders, her towers fall,her walls are torn down.Since this is the vengeance of the Lord,take vengeance on her;do to her as she has done to others.
16. Cut off from Babylon the sower,and the reaper with his sickle at harvest.Because of the sword of the oppressorlet everyone return to their own people,let everyone flee to their own land.
17. ‘Israel is a scattered flockthat lions have chased away.The first to devour themwas the king of Assyria;the last to crush their boneswas Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.’
18. Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:‘I will punish the king of Babylon and his landas I punished the king of Assyria.
19. But I will bring Israel back to their own pasture,and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan;their appetite will be satisfiedon the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.