33. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floorat the time of treading;Yet a little while,and the harvest time will come for her.
34. “He consumed me, defeated me,Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon;he left me like an empty vessel,Swallowed me like a sea monster,filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.
35. Let my torn flesh be visited upon Babylon,”says enthroned Zion;“My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”says Jerusalem.
36. But now, thus says the Lord:I will certainly defend your cause,I will certainly avenge you;I will dry up her sea,and drain her fountain.
37. Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,a haunt of jackals;A place of horror and hissing,without inhabitants.
38. They roar like lions,growl like lion cubs.
39. When they are parched, I will set drink before themto make them drunk, that they may be overcomewith everlasting sleep, never to awaken—oracle of the Lord.
40. I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter,like rams and goats.
41. How she has been seized, taken captive,the glory of the whole world!What a horror Babylon has become among the nations:
42. against Babylon the sea rises,she is overwhelmed by roaring waves!
43. Her cities have become wasteland,a parched and arid landWhere no one lives,no one passes through.