39. "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the Lord.
40. "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
41. "How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42. "The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
43. "Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.
44. "I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!