⁷ All who find them devour them,
    but their enemies say, ‘We’re not guilty,
because they have sinned against
    the Lord, the habitation of righteousness,
        the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’
⁸ Move away from the middle of Babylon,
    and go out of the land of the Chaldeans.
        Be like male goats at the head^[a] of the flock.
⁹ Indeed, I’m going to stir up
    and bring against Babylon
a great company of nations
    from the land of the north.
They’ll deploy for battle against her,
    and from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like a skilled warrior;
    they won’t miss their targets.^[b]