Jeremiah 50:35-40

Expanded Bible

“Let a sword ·kill the people living in Babylon [^Lbe against the Chaldeans]
    and her officers and wise men!
³⁶ Let a sword ·kill [^Lbe against] her ·false prophets [diviners],
    and they will become fools.
Let a sword ·kill [^Lbe against] her warriors,
    and they will be full of terror.
³⁷ Let a sword ·kill [^Lbe against] her horses and chariots
    and all the soldiers hired from other countries!
    Then they will be like women [^Cfrightened].
Let a sword ·attack [^Lbe against] her treasures,
    so they will be ·taken away [^Lplundered].
³⁸ Let a sword ·attack [^Lbe against] her waters
    so they will be dried up.
She is a land of idols,
    and the people go ·crazy [mad] with fear over them.

³⁹ “Desert animals and hyenas will live there,
    and ·owls [or ostriches] will live there [^Critually unclean birds that live in desolate places],
but no people will ever live there again.
    She will never be ·filled with people [resided in] again.
⁴⁰ God ·completely destroyed [^Loverturned] the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
    and ·the towns around them [^Ltheir neighbors; 20:6; 23:13–15; 49:18; Gen. 18–19],” says the Lord.
“In the same way no people will live there [^CBabylon],
    and no human being will stay there.