“Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!Make the watch strong!Set the watchmen,and prepare the ambushes;for Yahweh has both purposed and donethat which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.”
Jeremiah 51:12 (WEB)
Context Reading
10‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness.Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’ 11“Make the arrows sharp!Hold the shields firmly!Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it;for it is the vengeance of Yahweh,the vengeance of his temple. 12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!Make the watch strong!Set the watchmen,and prepare the ambushes;for Yahweh has both purposed and donethat which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures,your end has come, the measure of your covetousness. 14Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,‘Surely I will fill you with men,as with locusts,and they will lift up a shout against you.’