Jer.51.58

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

Jer.51.58

GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: "The city walls of Babylon--those massive walls!- will be flattened. And those city gates--huge gates!- will be set on fire. The harder you work at this empty life, the less you are. Nothing comes of ambition like this but ashes." [JC]

Jer.51.58

This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Babylon's thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations' labor is only fuel for the flames."

Jer.51.58

Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary."