Jeremiah 51:36-44

English Standard Version

³⁶Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(A)I will plead your cause
    and take vengeance for you.
^(B)I will dry up her sea
    and ^(C)make her fountain dry,
³⁷and Babylon shall become ^(D)a heap of ruins,
    ^(E)the haunt of jackals,
^(F)a horror ^(G)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

³⁸^(H)“They shall roar together ^(I)like lions;
    they shall growl like lions' cubs.
³⁹^(J)While they are inflamed ^(K)I will prepare them a feast
    and ^(L)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
^(M)then sleep a perpetual sleep
    and not wake, declares the Lord.
⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and male goats.

⁴¹“How ^(N)Babylon^[a] is taken,
    ^(O)the praise of the whole earth ^(P)seized!
How Babylon has become
    a horror among the nations!
⁴²^(Q)The sea has come up on Babylon;
    she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
⁴³Her cities have become a horror,
    ^(R)a land of drought and a desert,
^(S)a land in which no one dwells,
    and through which no son of man passes.
⁴⁴And I will punish ^(T)Bel in Babylon,
    and ^(U)take out of his mouth ^(V)what he has swallowed.
^(W)The nations shall no longer flow to him;
    ^(X)the wall of Babylon has fallen.