⁵² “But days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will punish her idols,^(A)
and throughout her land
    the wounded will groan.^(B)

⁴⁷ For the time will surely come
    when I will punish the idols^(A) of Babylon;
her whole land will be disgraced^(B)
    and her slain will all lie fallen within her.^(C)

³⁸ A drought on^[a] her waters!^(A)
    They will dry^(B) up.
For it is a land of idols,^(C)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

¹⁵ Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
    all who are caught will fall^(A) by the sword.^(B)
16 Their infants^(C) will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
    their houses will be looted and their wives violated.^(D)