“See!
They are like stubble.
The fire consumes them.
They cannot deliver themselves
From the power of the flame.
This is no coal for warming oneself!
This is no fire to sit before!
Such to you are
Those with whom you have labored.
You have trafficked with them
From your youth.
They all wander about
In their own paths.
There is no one to save you.”
Babylon will become like stubble that a fire consumes. They cannot save themselves from the powerful flames that are not like a warming fire or a fire to sit around and talk. They have worked with these people from their youth. They wander all around. No one is there to save them. Babylon is doomed.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 