Translations
This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Babylon's broad walls will be completely demolished and her towering gates set ablaze; the peoples will have labored for nothing, and the nations will have worn themselves out only to feed the fire.
Thus says YHWH of Hosts: The broad walls of Bavel shall be utterly torn down, and her high gates set on fire; the peoples have exhausted themselves for nothing, and the nations have wearied themselves only for the flames.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

