Babylon: As a Power Was: Cruel and Destructive

…who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.