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23 How the hammer of the whole earth
    has been broken and shattered into pieces!
How Babylon has become a wasteland
    among the nations!
24 You set a trap for others, Babylon,[a]
    but you yourself were caught in it unaware;
        you have been found and captured
        because you have defied the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his arsenal
    and brought out his brutal weapons.
The Lord God of heavenly forces
    has a job to do in the land of the Babylonians.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:24 Or I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were

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