34. Nevuchadretzar Melech Bavel hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like Tannin (Monster), he hath filled his belly with delicacies of me, he hath vomited me out.
35. The chamas done to me and to my flesh be upon Bavel, shall the inhabitant of Tziyon say; my dahm upon the inhabitants of Kasdim, shall Yerushalayim say.
36. Therefore thus saith Hashem; Hineni, I will defend thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her yam, and make her makor (spring) dry.
37. And Bavel shall become heaps of ruin, a ma'on for jackals, a horror to behold, astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38. They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl as cubs of arayot (lions).
39. In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), and never awake, saith Hashem.
40. I will bring them down like lambs litvo'ach (to the slaughter, see Isaiah 53:7), like rams with male goats.
41. How is Sheshach [Babylon] taken! And how is the tehillat kol ha'aretz seized! How is Bavel become a horror to behold among the Goyim!
42. The yam (sea) will arise over Bavel; she is covered with the tumult of the waves thereof.
43. Her towns are a horror to behold, a dry land, and an aravah, a land wherein no ish dwelleth, neither doth any ben adam pass thereby.