A lion from the thickets

44Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against a secure pasture; for in an instant I will make them run from it, and I will appoint over it whoever is chosen. For who is like me, and who can summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?

45Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his thoughts that he has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will drag them away; surely he will make their pasture desolate.

46At the sound of Babylon being captured, the earth quakes, and a cry is heard among the nations.