1. This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians :
2. “Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say, ‘Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.’
3. A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both people and animals will flee away.