41. How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
42. The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43. Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.
44. And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the rations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
45. Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.
46. And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.
47. Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48. And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the Lord.
49. And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.
50. You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.
52. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan: