¹⁹ And it will be that ^(A)Babylon, the ^(B)beauty of kingdoms, the ^[a]honor of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God ^(C)overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰ It will ^(D)never be inhabited or dwelt in from generation to generation;
Nor will the ^[b](E)Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

¹¹ But ^(A)evil will come on you
Which you will not know how to charm away;
And disaster will fall on you
For which you cannot atone;
And ^(B)destruction about which you do not know
Will come on you ^(C)suddenly.

¹³ Because of the wrath of Yahweh she will ^(A)not be inhabited,
But she will be ^(B)completely desolate;
Everyone who passes by Babylon ^(C)will be in desolation
And will hiss because of all her wounds.

⁴³ Her cities have become an ^(A)object of horror,
A parched land, and a desert,
A land in which ^(B)no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.