37 And Bavel shall become heaps of ruin, a ma'on for jackals, a horror to behold, astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl as cubs of arayot (lions).
39 In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), and never awake, saith Hashem.
40 I will bring them down like lambs litvo'ach (to the slaughter, see Isaiah 53:7), like rams with male goats.
41 How is Sheshach [Babylon] taken! And how is the tehillat kol ha'aretz seized! How is Bavel become a horror to behold among the Goyim!
42 The yam (sea) will arise over Bavel; she is covered with the tumult of the waves thereof.
43 Her towns are a horror to behold, a dry land, and an aravah, a land wherein no ish dwelleth, neither doth any ben adam pass thereby.