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!
42. The sea has risen over Babylon— she is covered with its roaring waves.