31. One runner will run to meet another,and one messenger to meet another,to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
32. So the passages are seized.They have burnt the reeds with fire.The men of war are frightened.”
33. For the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says:“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden.Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
34. “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.He has crushed me.He has made me an empty vessel.He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.He has cast me out.
35. May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Kasdim!”will Jerusalem say.
36. Therefore the Lord says:“Behold, I will plead your cause,and take vengeance for you.I will dry up her sea,and make her fountain dry.
37. Babylon will become heaps,a dwelling place for jackals,an astonishment, and a hissing,without inhabitant.
38. They will roar together like young lions.They will growl as lions’ cubs.
39. When they are heated, I will make their feast,and I will make them drunk,that they may rejoice,and sleep a perpetual sleep,and not wake up,” says the Lord.
40. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams with male goats.