32. The fords have also been seized and the marshes burned with fire, so the warriors are in panic.
33. For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at treading time. A little longer, and the time of harvest for her will come.”
34. “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, crushed me, set me aside like an empty dish, swallowed me up like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, rinsed me away.”
35. The one dwelling in Zion says: “Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon!” Jerusalem says: “My blood be on the Chaldeans!”
36. Therefore thus says Adonai: “Yes, I will uphold your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
37. Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling for jackals, a horror and a hissing, uninhabited.
38. They roar together like young lions, growl like lions cubs.
39. When they become hot, I will set out a banquet for them and will make them so drunk that they become merry— and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
40. “I will drag them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
41. How has Sheshach been taken, the praise of the whole earth seized? How has Babylon become a horror among the nations!