<p class="poetry">&#8220;Announce<n id="1" /> the news among the nations! Proclaim it!p> <p class="poetry">Signal for people to pay attention!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Babylon will be captured.p> <p class="poetry">Bel<n id="3" /> will be put to shame.p> <p class="poetry">Marduk will be dismayed.p> <p class="poetry">Babylon&#8217;s idols will be put to shame.p> <p class="poetry">Her disgusting images<n id="4" /> will be dismayed.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces;p> <p class="poetry">all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will make a waste heap<n id="2" /> of all her images.p> <p class="poetry">Since<n id="3" /> she gathered the metal<n id="4" /> as a prostitute collects her wages,p> <p class="poetry">the idols will become a prostitute&#8217;s wages again.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>