35 Let my torn flesh be visited upon Babylon,”says enthroned Zion;“My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”says Jerusalem.
36 But now, thus says the Lord:I will certainly defend your cause,I will certainly avenge you;I will dry up her sea,and drain her fountain.
37 Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,a haunt of jackals;A place of horror and hissing,without inhabitants.
38 They roar like lions,growl like lion cubs.
39 When they are parched, I will set drink before themto make them drunk, that they may be overcomewith everlasting sleep, never to awaken—oracle of the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter,like rams and goats.
41 How she has been seized, taken captive,the glory of the whole world!What a horror Babylon has become among the nations: