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!
42. The sea has come up over Babylon;she has been covered with the multitude of the waves.
43. Her cities have become a desolation,a dry land and a wilderness,a land in which no man dwells,through which no son of man passes.
44. I will punish Bel in Babylon,and I will bring forth from his mouth what he has swallowed up;and the nations will not flow together any more to him.Indeed, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45. My people, go out of her midst,and deliver every man his soulfrom the fierce anger of the Lord,
46. lest your heart grows faint, and you are afraidfor the report that will be heard in the land—for the report will come one year, and after that in another year will come another report,and violence will be in the land,ruler against ruler—
47. therefore the days are comingwhen I will punish the graven images of Babylon;and her whole land will be humiliated,and all her slain will fall in her midst.
48. Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is in it,shall sing for joy over Babylon;for the destroyers will come to herfrom the north,says the Lord.