37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38. They shall roar together like lions; they shall roar as lions’ whelps.
39. In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the Lord.
40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41. How is Sheshach a prey! and how is she who was the praise of the whole earth taken! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles!
42. The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43. Her cities were devastated, the land dry and desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall any son of man pass thereby.
44. And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45. Come out of the midst of her, my people, and save each one his life from the fierce anger of the Lord.
46. And lest your heart faint, and ye fear because of the news that shall be heard in the land; in one year shall the news come, and after that in the next year shall come the rumour, and then shall come the violence in the land, and the ruler over him who rules.
47. Therefore, behold, the days come that I will visit the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be ashamed, and all her dead shall fall in the midst of her.
48. Then the heavens and the earth and all that is therein shall sing praises over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, said the Lord.
49. As Babylon has caused the dead of Israel to fall, so because of Babylon the dead of all the earth fell.
50. Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, do not tarry: remember the Lord for many days, and remember Jerusalem.
51. We are ashamed, because we have heard the reproach; confusion has covered our faces; for strangers are come against the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.
52. Therefore, behold, the days come, said the Lord, that I will visit her graven images; and through all her land the wounded unto death shall groan.
53. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strength upon high, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, said the Lord.
54. The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!