50:2 “Announce ¹  the news among the nations! Proclaim it!

Signal for people to pay attention! ² 

Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say:

‘Babylon will be captured.

Bel ³  will be put to shame.

Marduk will be dismayed.

Babylon’s idols will be put to shame.

Her disgusting images ⁴  will be dismayed. ⁵ 

50:3 For a nation from the north ⁶  will attack Babylon.

It will lay her land waste.

People and animals will flee out of it.

No one will inhabit it.’