“The land trembles.
The land writhes
In pain.
This is Yahweh’s purposes
Against Babylon,
To make the land
Of Babylon
A desolation,
Without inhabitants.”
This simple and clear plan of Yahweh was to make the Babylonian land tremble and struggle in pain. Yahweh wanted to make Babylon a desolate place without anybody living there.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 