31 Disaster will come to those nations who mistreated you and celebrated your destruction.
32 The cities that made your children their slaves will one day be miserable, and the city of Babylon, where your people now live, will suffer pain.
33 Babylon was glad when you fell and were destroyed; now she will moan at her own destruction.
34 God will turn her pride into mourning, and she will no longer be proud of her great people.
35 The eternal God will send down fire, and she will burn for days and days, until nothing can live there except demons.
36-37 Jerusalem, look toward the east and be glad, because God is bringing your children home! They were once dragged away as captives, yet at his command they are now gathered together from the east and the west and are praising God's glorious power.