36. And so the Lord said to the people of Jerusalem, “I will take up your cause and will make your enemies pay for what they did to you. I will dry up the source of Babylonia's water and make its rivers go dry.
37. That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.
38. The Babylonians all roar like lions and growl like lion cubs.
39. Are they greedy? I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk and happy. They will go to sleep and never wake up.
40. I will take them to be slaughtered, like lambs, goats, and rams. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
41. The Lord says about Babylon: “The city that the whole world praised has been captured! What a horrifying sight Babylon has become to the nations!
42. The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.
43. The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.