# see "listen" or "pay attention to what i am about to tell you" # days are coming ... when I will punish "there will be a time ... when I will punish". Future time is spoken of as "days are coming." See Jeremiah 7:32. # I will punish the carved idols of Babylon "I will remove the carved idols of Babylon" # Babylon ... her land ... her slaughtered ones ... her midst "the people of Babylon ... their land ... their slaughtered ones ... their midst"