58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly (A)broken,[a]
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
(B)The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:58 Lit. laid utterly bare

58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“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)

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