Jeremiah 51:36-44
36Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am going to aplead your caseAnd bexact full vengeance for you;And cI will dry up her 1seaAnd make her fountain dry.
37“aBabylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,An bobject of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.38“They will roar together like ayoung lions;They will growl like lions’ cubs.39“When they become heated up, I will set before them their feastAnd amake them drunk, that they may exultAnd may bsleep a perpetual sleepAnd not wake up,” declares Yahweh.40“I will bring them down like 1lambs ato the slaughter,Like rams together with male goats.41“How 1,aSheshak has been captured,And bthe praise of the whole earth been seized!How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!42“The 1,asea has come up over Babylon;She has been covered with its tumultuous waves.43“Her cities have become an aobject of horror,A parched land, and a desert,A land in which bno man livesAnd through which no son of man passes.44“aI will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will make what he has swallowed bcome out of his mouth;And the nations will no longer cstream to him.Even the dwall of Babylon has fallen down!