37 Babylon will become a heap of rubble,a jackals’ den,a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions;they will growl like lion cubs.
39 While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast,and I will make them drunk so that they revel. Then they will fall asleep foreverand never wake up.This is the Lord’s declaration.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams together with male goats.
41 How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized.What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!
42 The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land,a land where no one lives,where no human being passes through.