35
The violence against me and my flesh
be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36
Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I judge thy cause and shall take thy vengeance; and I will dry up her sea and make her flowing
waters dry.
37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38
They shall roar together like lions; they shall roar as lions’ whelps.
39
In their heat I will place their feasts
before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41
How is Sheshach a prey! and how is she who was the praise of the whole earth taken! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles!
42
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43
Her cities were devastated, the land dry and desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall
any son of man pass thereby.
44
And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45
Come out of the midst of her, my people, and save each one his life from the fierce anger of the LORD.