33
For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: The daughter of Babylon
is like a threshingfloor;
it is now time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; he has cast me out.
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.