Jeremiah 51:37-43

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³⁸ Like lions they shall roar together;
    they shall growl like lions’ whelps.
³⁹ When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink
    and make them drunk, until they become merry
and then sleep a perpetual sleep
    and never wake, says the Lord.^(B)
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.^(C)

⁴¹ How Sheshach^[a] is taken;
    the pride of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
    an object of horror among the nations!^(D)
42 The sea has risen over Babylon;
    she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.^(E)
43 Her cities have become an object of horror,
    a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one lives
    and through which no mortal passes.^(F)