33. For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor,it is time to thresh her;yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.
34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylonhas devoured me and crushed me;he has made me an empty vessel.He has swallowed me up like a dragon;he has filled his belly with my delicacies,he has cast me out.
35. May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”the inhabitant of Zion will say;and, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.
36. Therefore thus says the Lord: I will plead your cause,and take vengeance for you.And I will dry up her sea,and make her springs dry.
37. Babylon will become heaps,a dwelling place for jackals,an astonishment, and a hissing,without an inhabitant.
38. They will roar together like young lions;they will growl as lions’ whelps.
39. When they become heated up,I will make their feasts,and I will make them drunk,that they may rejoice,and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,says the Lord.
40. I will bring them downlike lambs to the slaughter,like rams with male goats.
41. How Sheshak has been captured!And how the praise of the whole earth has been seized!How Babylon has become an astonishmentamong the nations!