Jeremiah 51:36-44

Authorized (King James) Version

³⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord;
Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee;
and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
³⁷ And Babylon shall become heaps,
a dwellingplace for dragons,
an astonishment, and an hissing,
without an inhabitant.
³⁸ They shall roar together like lions:
they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
³⁹ In their heat I will make their feasts,
and I will make them drunken,
that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake, saith the Lord.
⁴⁰ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he goats.

⁴¹ How is Sheshach taken!
and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised!
how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
⁴² The sea is come up upon Babylon:
she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
⁴³ Her cities are a desolation,
a dry land, and a wilderness,
a land wherein no man dwelleth,
neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

⁴⁴ And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up:
and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him:
yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.