The fall of Babylon will be so great that people will wonder at the comparison. Seeing the fallen Babylon, it will be hard to imagine that it was ever powerful.
Variant: Verse 24 renders "and shall consider thee, and shall say" where the KJV has "and consider thee, saying.) Tvedtnes notes that the Masoretic text also has the future, and thus the Book of Mormon reading is closer in tense. He does note, however, that the verb "say/saying" is implied in the Hebrew, but not specifically written (Tvedtnes, 1981, p. 58.)