1-5. There’s more. God says more:“Watch this:I’m whipping upA death-dealing hurricane against Babylon—‘Hurricane Persia’—against all who live in that perverse land.I’m sending a cleanup crew into Babylon.They’ll clean the place out from top to bottom.When they get through there’ll be nothing left of herworth taking or talking about.They won’t miss a thing.A total and final Doomsday!Fighters will fight with everything they’ve got.It’s no-holds-barred.They will spare nothing and no one.It’s final and wholesale destruction—the end!Babylon littered with the wounded,streets piled with corpses.It turns out that Israel and Judahare not widowed after all.As their God, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, I am still alive and well,committed to them even thoughThey filled their land with sinagainst Israel’s most Holy God.
10. “God has set everything right for us.Come! Let’s tell the good newsBack home in Zion.Let’s tell what our God did to set things right.
11-13. “Sharpen the arrows!Fill the quivers!God has stirred up the kings of the Medes,infecting them with war fever: ‘Destroy Babylon!’God’s on the warpath.He’s out to avenge his Temple.Give the signal to attack Babylon’s walls.Station guards around the clock.Bring in reinforcements.Set men in ambush.God will do what he planned,what he said he’d do to the people of Babylon.You have more water than you need,you have more money than you need—But your life is over,your lifeline cut.”