38 They roar together like young lions, growl like lions cubs.
39 When they become hot, I will set out a banquet for them and will make them so drunk that they become merry— and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
40 “I will drag them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
41 How has Sheshach been taken, the praise of the whole earth seized? How has Babylon become a horror among the nations!
42 The sea has risen over Babylon— she is covered with its roaring waves.
43 Her cities became desolation, a dry land, desert, uninhabited land, through which no son of man passes.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon— What he swallowed I will make him disgorge out of his mouth. Nations will no longer stream to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon has fallen!