15. What does Jehovah prophesy concerning Babylon?

¹⁵ “This is what Jehovah has said, the Repurchaser of you people, the Holy One of Israel: ‘For your sakes I will send to Babylon and cause the bars of the prisons to come down, and the Chaldeans in the ships with whining cries on their part.

Isaiah 43:14

16. What will befall Babylon, the Chaldean merchants, and any would-be defenders of Babylon?

¹⁶ Babylon is like a prison to the exiles in that it prevents their return to Jerusalem.

Chaldean merchants plying Babylon’s canals​—waterways for thousands of commercial galleys and for barges carrying the Babylonian gods—​will whine in grief when their mighty capital falls.