24 (A)I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon,
    and (B)you did not know it;
you were found and caught,
    because you opposed the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his armory
    and brought out (C)the weapons of his wrath,
for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do
    in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from every quarter;
    open her granaries;
(D)pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;
    let nothing be left of her.

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