36. Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Look, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up.
37. And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, without inhabitants.
38. They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions.
39. At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep an everlasting sleep, and they will not wake up,” declares Yahweh.
40. “I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats.
41. How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations!
42. The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
43. Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it.
44. And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth what he has swallowed. And the nations will not stream towards him any longer what’s worse, the wall of Babylon has fallen.
45. Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from the burning anger of Yahweh.
46. Now so that you are not fainthearted, and you are afraid at the rumors that are heard in the land— and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler—
47. therefore look, days are coming, and I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her.
48. Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from the north the destroyers will come to it,” declares Yahweh.
49. Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen.
50. Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.
51. We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh.