34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of BabylonHas devoured me, he has crushed me;He has made me an empty vessel,He has swallowed me up like a monster;He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,He has spit me out.
35. Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”The inhabitant of Zion will say;“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”Jerusalem will say.
36. Therefore thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
37. Babylon shall become a heap,A dwelling place for jackals,An astonishment and a hissing,Without an inhabitant.
38. They shall roar together like lions,They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
39. In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;I will make them drunk,That they may rejoice,And sleep a perpetual sleepAnd not awake,” says the Lord.
40. “I will bring them downLike lambs to the slaughter,Like rams with male goats.
41. “Oh, how Sheshach is taken!Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized!How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
42. The sea has come up over Babylon;She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43. Her cities are a desolation,A dry land and a wilderness,A land where no one dwells,Through which no son of man passes.
44. I will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45. “My people, go out of the midst of her!And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
46. And lest your heart faint,And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land(A rumor will come one year,And after that, in another yearA rumor will come,And violence in the land,Ruler against ruler),
47. Therefore behold, the days are comingThat I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;Her whole land shall be ashamed,And all her slain shall fall in her midst.