“Let not the archer
Bend his bow!
Let him not array himself
In his coat of mail!
Do not spare
Her young men!
Utterly destroy
Her entire army!
They shall fall down slain
In the land
Of the Chaldeans,
Wounded
In her streets.”
In this battle with Babylon, the Babylonian archers with their bows and arrows would be useless. Those who put on armored coats of mail would also find little protection. The invaders were to utterly destroy the young men and the army of the Babylonians. They were to defeat the Chaldeans in their own streets, even letting the wounded ones lay there.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 