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.