“I will be your lawyer to plead your case,
    and I will avenge you.
I will dry up her river,
    as well as her springs,
³⁷ and Babylon will become a heap of ruins,
    haunted by jackals.
She will be an object of horror and contempt,
    a place where no one lives.
³⁸ Her people will roar together like strong lions.
    They will growl like lion cubs.
³⁹ And while they lie inflamed with all their wine,
    I will prepare a different kind of feast for them.
I will make them drink until they fall asleep,
    and they will never wake up again,”
    says the Lord.
⁴⁰ “I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats to be sacrificed.

⁴¹ “How Babylon^[a] is fallen—
    great Babylon, praised throughout the earth!
Now she has become an object of horror
    among the nations.
⁴² The sea has risen over Babylon;
    she is covered by its crashing waves.
⁴³ Her cities now lie in ruins;
    she is a dry wasteland
    where no one lives or even passes by.
⁴⁴ And I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon,
    and make him vomit up all he has eaten.
The nations will no longer come and worship him.
    The wall of Babylon has fallen!