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.
40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams and male goats.
41. “How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized!How Babylon has becomea horror among the nations!
42. The sea has come up on Babylon;she is covered with its tumultuous waves.