“Behold, I will plead your cause,
    and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea,
    and make her fountain dry.
³⁷ Babylon will become heaps,
    a dwelling place for jackals,
    an astonishment, and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.
³⁸ They will roar together like young lions.
    They will growl as lions’ cubs.
³⁹ When they are heated, I will make their feast,
    and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
    and sleep a perpetual sleep,
    and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

⁴⁰ “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams with male goats.

⁴¹ “How Sheshach is taken!
    How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
    How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
⁴² The sea has come up on Babylon.
    She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
⁴³ Her cities have become a desolation,
    a dry land, and a desert,
    a land in which no man dwells.
    No son of man passes by it.
⁴⁴ I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,
    and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.
The nations will not flow any more to him.
    Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.