Zion's Vengeance and Babylon's Fall

34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

35

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

36

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

37

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

38

They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

39

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

41

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

42

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

43

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

44

I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

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