Jeremiah 51:35-37

Good News Translation

³⁵Let the people of Zion say,
    “May Babylonia be held responsible
    for the violence done to us!”
Let the people of Jerusalem say,
    “May Babylonia be held responsible
    for what we have suffered!”

The Lord Will Help Israel

³⁶And so the Lord said to the people of Jerusalem, “I will take up your cause and will make your enemies pay for what they did to you. I will dry up the source of Babylonia's water and make its rivers go dry. ³⁷That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.

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