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.
42 What a horrifying sight Babylon will be to the nations!The sea will rise over Babylon,and its roaring waves will cover it.
43 Its cities will be ruined.It will become a desert, a land where no one livesand where no human travels.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon.I will make Bel spit out everything that it has swallowed.Nations will no longer stream to Babylon,and its walls will fall.