32. The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire,and the soldiers are terrified.
33. For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floorat the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.
34. “Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;he has crushed me.He has set me aside like an empty dish;he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies;he has vomited me out,”
35. says the inhabitant of Zion;“Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon.Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”says Jerusalem.
36. Therefore, this is what the Lord says:I am about to plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf;I will dry up her sea and make her fountain run dry.
37. Babylon will become a heap of rubble,a jackals’ den,a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
38. They will roar together like young lions;they will growl like lion cubs.
39. While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast,and I will make them drunk so that they revel. Then they will fall asleep foreverand never wake up.This is the Lord’s declaration.
40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams together with male goats.