34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylonhas devoured me and crushed me;he has made me an empty vessel.He has swallowed me up like a dragon;he has filled his belly with my delicacies,he has cast me out.
35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”the inhabitant of Zion will say;and, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord: I will plead your cause,and take vengeance for you.And I will dry up her sea,and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will become heaps,a dwelling place for jackals,an astonishment, and a hissing,without an inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions;they will growl as lions’ whelps.
39 When they become heated up,I will make their feasts,and I will make them drunk,that they may rejoice,and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,says the Lord.
40 I will bring them downlike lambs to the slaughter,like rams with male goats.