39. Are they greedy? I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk and happy. They will go to sleep and never wake up.
40. I will take them to be slaughtered, like lambs, goats, and rams. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
41. The Lord says about Babylon: “The city that the whole world praised has been captured! What a horrifying sight Babylon has become to the nations!
42. The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.
43. The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.
44. I will punish Bel, the god of Babylonia, and make him give up his stolen goods; the nations will not worship him any more.“Babylon's walls have fallen.
45. People of Israel, run away from there! Run for your life from my fierce anger.