40. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
41. “How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!
42. The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
43. Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.
44. I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.
45. “Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the Lord.