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, "Behold, I am going to plead your case And exact full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.
37 "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38 "They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.
39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the Lord.
40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
41 "How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!