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.
41. How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized.What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!
42. The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.
43. Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land,a land where no one lives,where no human being passes through.
44. I will punish Bel in Babylon.I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon’s wall will fall.
45. Come out from among her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the Lord’s burning anger.