Jeremiah 51:36-44

New King James Version

³⁶Therefore thus says the Lord:

“Behold, ^(A)I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
^(B)I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
³⁷^(C)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
^(D)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
³⁸They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
³⁹In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
^(E)I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
⁴⁰“I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

⁴¹“Oh, how ^(F)Sheshach^[a] is taken!
Oh, how ^(G)the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
⁴²^(H)The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
⁴³^(I)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ^(J)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
⁴⁴I will punish ^(K)Bel^[b] in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, ^(L)the wall of Babylon shall fall.