A Prophecy against Babylon

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

2 “Announce and declare to the nations;

lift up a banner and proclaim it;

hold nothing back when you say,

‘Babylon is captured;

Bel is put to shame;

Marduk is shattered,

her images are disgraced,

her idols are broken in pieces.’

3 For a nation from the north will come against her;

it will make her land a desolation.

No one will live in it;

both man and beast will flee.”