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.
45. “My people, go away from the middle of her,and each of you save yourselves from the Lord’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 judgement 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 the Lord.
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 the Lord from afar,and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”