Jeremiah 51:51-58
51aWe are ashamed because we have heard reproach;Dishonor has covered our faces,For bstrangers have enteredThe holy places of the house of Yahweh.52“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh,“When I will punish her agraven images,And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.53“Though Babylon should aascend to the heavens,And though she should fortify 1her lofty stronghold,From bMe destroyers will come to her,” declares Yahweh.54The asound of an outcry from Babylon,And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!55For Yahweh is going to destroy Babylon,And He will make her loud 1noise 2vanish from her.And their awaves will roar like many waters;The rumbling of their voices 3sounds forth.56For the adestroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,And her mighty men will be captured;Their bbows are shattered;For Yahweh is a God of crecompense,He will fully repay.57“I will amake her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors, her prefects, and her mighty men,That they may sleep a bperpetual sleep and not wake up,”cDeclares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.