<p class="poetry">&#8220;You who live along the rivers of Babylon,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the time of your end has come.p> <p class="poetry">You who are rich in plundered treasure,p> <p class="poetry">it is time for your lives to be cut off.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Because you did that,p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm that<n id="1" /> a time is comingp> <p class="poetry">when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of Ammon,p> <p class="poetry">hear the sound of the battle cry.p> <p class="poetry">It will become a mound covered with ruins.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Its villages will be burned to the ground.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Then Israel will take back its landp> <p class="poetry">from those who took their land from them.p> <p class="poetry">I, the Lord, affirm it!<n id="4" />p>