41. “How Sheshach is taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42. The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43. Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass by it.
44. I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations shall not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45. “My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
46. Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47. Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
48. Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
49. “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
50. You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
51. “We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
52. “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.
53. Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
54. “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
55. For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.