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33 For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel:

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
at treading time.
A little longer,
and the time of harvest for her will come.”

34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me,
crushed me, set me aside like an empty dish,
swallowed me up like a dragon,
filled his belly with my delicacies,
rinsed me away.”
35 The one dwelling in Zion says:
“Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon!”
Jerusalem says:
“My blood be on the Chaldeans!”

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