¹¹ “Sharpen the arrows,^(A)
    take up the shields!^(B)
The Lord has stirred up the kings^(C) of the Medes,^(D)
    because his purpose^(E) is to destroy Babylon.
The Lord will take vengeance,^(F)
    vengeance for his temple.^(G)

⁴⁴ I will punish Bel^(A) in Babylon
    and make him spew out^(B) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
    And the wall^(C) of Babylon will fall.

“Babylon’s thick wall^(A) will be leveled
    and her high gates^(B) set on fire;
the peoples^(C) exhaust^(D) themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”^(E)

⁸ Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,^(A)
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.