32. the fords have been seized,the marshes are burned with fire,and the soldiers are in panic.
33. For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floorat the time when it is trodden;yet a little whileand the time of her harvest will come.”
34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;he has crushed me;he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster;he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;he has rinsed me out.
35. The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”let the inhabitant of Zion say.“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”let Jerusalem say.
36. Therefore thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will plead your causeand take vengeance for you. I will dry up her seaand make her fountain dry,
37. and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing,without inhabitant.
38. “They shall roar together like lions;they shall growl like lions’ cubs.
39. While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feastand make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleepand not wake, declares the Lord.