19 And Babylon, the decoration of kingdoms,+ the beauty of the pride of the Chal·deʹans,+ must become as when God* overthrew Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah.+

4 that you must raise up this proverbial saying against the king of Babylon and say:

“How has the one driving [others] to work come to a stop,* the oppression* come to a stop!+

45 This is what Jehovah has said to his anointed one,*+ to Cyrus,* whose right hand I have taken hold of,+ to subdue before him nations,+ so that I may ungird even the hips of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, so that even the gates will not be shut:

3 For against her a nation has come up from the north.+ It is the one that makes her land an object of astonishment, so that there proves to be no one dwelling in her.+ Both man* and domestic animal have taken flight.+ They have gone away.”+

8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen, so that she is broken.+ Howl over her, YOU people.+ Take balsam for her pain.+ Perhaps she may be healed.”

28 “PEʹRES, your kingdom has been divided* and given to the Medes and the Persians.”*+

8 And another, a second angel,* followed, saying: “She has fallen! Babylon+ the Great has fallen,+ she who made all the nations drink of the wine+ of the anger of her fornication!”*+

2 And he cried out with a strong voice,+ saying: “She has fallen! Babylon* the Great has fallen,+ and she has become a dwelling place of demons and a lurking place of every unclean exhalation*+ and a lurking place of every unclean and hated bird!+