31 ^aOne runner will run to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides; ‡

32 ^aThe passages are blocked,
The reeds they have burned with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.  ‡

34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has ^adevoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an ^bempty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out. ‡

35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.