35 The people who live in Zion say,“May the violence done to us be done to Babylon.”Jerusalem says,“May the people of Babylon be held responsible for our deaths.”
36 This is what the Lord says:I am going to take up your cause and get revenge for you.I will dry up Babylon’s sea and make its springs dry.
37 Babylon will become piles of rubble.It will become a dwelling place for jackals,something horrible, and an object of contempt,where no one lives.
38 Its people are like roaring lions and growling lion cubs.
39 When they are excited,I will prepare a feast for themand make them drunk so that they will shout and laugh.They will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up again,declares the Lord.
40 I will take them to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.
41 “Sheshach has been captured.Babylon, the city that the whole world praised, has been taken captive.