Isaiah 47:11

Let destruction, which he does not know, come upon him, And let the net, which he hid, catch him; Let him fall into it in destruction.

Let death come deceitfully upon them; Let them go down alive to Sheol, For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

How they become desolate in a moment! They are completely swept away by terrors!

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have recompensed us.

Evil pursues sinners, But the righteous are repaid with good.

The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz beheld.

But it will be that the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust, And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away; And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

Therefore this iniquity will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant,

The One forming light and creating darkness, Producing peace and creating calamity; I am Yahweh who does all these.

“Indeed, you have not heard; indeed, you have not known. Indeed, even from long ago your ear has not been open Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously; And you have been called a transgressor from the womb.

The righteous man perishes, and no man puts it upon his heart; And men of lovingkindness are gathered away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is gathered away from evil,

So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.

“They have heard that I am sighing; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of the evil done to me; They rejoice that You have done it. You have brought the day which You have proclaimed, So that they will become like me.

‘Disaster will come upon disaster, and report will be added to report; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.