“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonchewed up my people and spit out the bones.He wiped his dish clean, pushed back his chair,and belched—a huge gluttonous belch.Lady Zion says,‘The brutality done to me be done to Babylon!’And Jerusalem says,‘The blood spilled from me be charged to the Chaldeans!’Then I, God, step in and say,‘I’m on your side, taking up your cause.I’m your Avenger. You’ll get your revenge.I’ll dry up her rivers, plug up her springs.Babylon will be a pile of rubble,scavenged by stray dogs and cats,A dumping ground for garbage,a godforsaken ghost town.’