call together against her
the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her,
bring the horse as the stinging locust.

51:28. Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their
captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.

51:29. And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for
the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of
Babylon desert and uninhabitable.

51:30. The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have
dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as
women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.

51:31. One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet
messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one
end to the other:

51:32. And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with
fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

51:33. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter
of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

51:34. Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured
me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a
dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath
cast me out.

51:35. The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the
habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith
Jerusalem.

51:36. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and
will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and
will dry up her spring.

51:37. And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for
dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

51:38. They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes
like young lions.

51:39. In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk,
that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no
more, saith the Lord.

51:40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams
with kids.

51:41. How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth
surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

51:42. The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the
multitude of the waves thereof.

51:43. Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabit