Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Destruction of

This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received: …

…you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! …

This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror. …

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. …

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans: