Jeremiah 51:36-44

Evangelical Heritage Version

³⁶ Therefore this is what the Lord says:
Watch! I will defend your cause
and take revenge for you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her springs dry.
³⁷ Babylon will become a heap of ruins,
a haunt for jackals,
a horror and a target of contempt,^[a]
and no one will live there.
³⁸ They will all roar together like young lions.
They will growl like lion cubs.
³⁹ When they are ravenous, I will spread a feast.
I will make them drunk,
so that they will celebrate,^[b]
and then they will go to sleep forever
and never wake up, declares the Lord.
⁴⁰ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats.

⁴¹ How Sheshak^[c] is captured!
The pride of the whole earth is seized!
Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.
⁴² The sea has come all the way up to Babylon,
and she is covered with its rolling waves.
⁴³ Her cities have become desolate,
a desert and a wasteland,
a land in which no one lives,
a land through which no man passes.
⁴⁴ I will punish Bel in Babylon
and make his mouth spit out what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
The wall of Babylon will fall.