“‘Therefore,
Her young men
Shall fall
In her squares.
All her soldiers
Shall be destroyed
On that day.’
Says Yahweh.
‘I am against you!
O arrogant one!’
Says Yahweh!
God of hosts!
‘Your day has come!
It is the time
When I will punish you.
The arrogant one
Shall stumble.
The arrogant one
Shall fall.
There will be no one
To raise him up.
I will kindle a fire
In his cities.
It will devour
Everything around him.’”
Yahweh proclaims that the arrogant Babylonians would suffer defeat, so that their young men would die in their town squares. Their soldiers would be wiped out. Yahweh with all his hosts and armies would be against Babylon. Their time for their punishment was coming. These arrogant Babylonians would stumble and fall, but no one would help them up. Yahweh was going to set them on fire in their cities. Everything would be devoured around them. Bad times were coming to these proud Babylonians.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 