50:2 “Announce
Signal for people to pay attention!
Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say:
‘Babylon will be captured.
Bel
Marduk will be dismayed.
Babylon’s idols will be put to shame.
Her disgusting images
50:3 For a nation from the north
It will lay her land waste.
People and animals will flee out of it.
No one will inhabit it.’
50:9 For I will rouse into action and bring against Babylon
a host of mighty nations
They will set up their battle lines against her.
They will come from the north and capture her.
Their arrows will be like a skilled soldier
who does not return from the battle empty-handed.