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.
41. “How Sheshach is taken!How the praise of the whole earth seized!How Babylon has become a desolation amongst 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.No son of man passes by it.
44. I will execute judgement on Bel in Babylon,and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.The nations will not flow any more to him.Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.