Jeremiah 51:36-46

36 Therefore, the LORD proclaims: I'm going to defend your cause; I'll turn the tables on your attacker. I'll dry up her sea; I'll shut up her springs.
37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a den of wild dogs, a wasteland with no one left in it.
38 Like lions they will roar together; they will growl like lions' cubs.
39 They are ready to devour, so I'll prepare the feast and mix the drinks! But after their noisy drunkenness, they will fall fast asleep. They will sleep forever, never to get up, declares the LORD.
40 I'll lead them off like lambs for slaughter, like rams and goats.
41 How Sheshach has been defeated, the pride of the whole earth taken captive! How Babylon has become a wasteland among the nations!
42 The sea has risen over Babylon; its pounding waves overwhelm her.
43 Her towns are devastated; her land is scorched and barren, a place where no one lives or dares to pass through.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon; I will force him to vomit what he's consumed. Then nations will no longer stream to him, and Babylon's walls will collapse!
45 Get out of Babylon, my people! Run for your lives from the LORD's fierce anger.
46 Don't be distracted or frightened by the rumors you hear in the land. Sometimes you hear one thing and another time something else: rumors of violence and uprisings.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Sheshach is a name for Babylon.
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