Study Desk

^(C1)Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His plan is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the ^(C2)vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.

One ^(F1)(C1)courier runs to meet ^(F1)another, And one ^(F2)(C2)messenger to meet ^(F2)another, To tell the king of Babylon That his city has been captured from end to end;

-"When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And ^(C1)make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph, And may ^(C2)sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

"I will ^(C1)make her leaders and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her officials, and her warriors, So that they will sleep a ^(C2)perpetual sleep and not wake up," ^(C3)Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of armies.