39. And while they lie inflamed with all their wine,I will prepare a different kind of feast for them.I will make them drink until they fall asleep,and they will never wake up again,”says the lord.
40. “I will bring them downlike lambs to the slaughter,like rams and goats to be sacrificed.
41. “How Babylon is fallen—great Babylon, praised throughout the earth!Now she has become an object of horroramong the nations.
42. The sea has risen over Babylon;she is covered by its crashing waves.
43. Her cities now lie in ruins;she is a dry wastelandwhere no one lives or even passes by.
44. And I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon,and make him vomit up all he has eaten.The nations will no longer come and worship him.The wall of Babylon has fallen!
45. “Come out, my people, flee from Babylon.Save yourselves! Run from the lord’s fierce anger.
46. But do not panic; don’t be afraidwhen you hear the first rumor of approaching forces.For rumors will keep coming year by year.Violence will erupt in the landas the leaders fight against each other.
47. For the time is surely comingwhen I will punish this great city and all her idols.Her whole land will be disgraced,and her dead will lie in the streets.
48. Then the heavens and earth will rejoice,for out of the north will come destroying armiesagainst Babylon,” says the lord.
49. “Just as Babylon killed the people of Israeland others throughout the world,so must her people be killed.