Zion's Vengeance and Babylon's Fall

34

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

35

The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of the Kasdim, shall Jerusalem say.

36

Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

37

Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

38

They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ cubs.

39

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

40

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

41

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

42

The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

43

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

44

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

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