38. Your rivers and canalswill dry up.All this will happen,because your landis full of idols,and they have made foolsof you.
39. Never again will people livein your land—only desert animals, jackals,and unclean birds.
40. I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrahand the nearby towns,and I will destroy Babylonjust as completely.No one will live there again.
41. Far to the north,a nation and its allieshave been awakened.They are powerfuland ready for war.
42. Bows and arrows and swordsare in their hands.The soldiers are crueland show no pity.The hoofbeats of their horsesecho like ocean wavescrashing against the shore.The army has lined up for battleand is coming to attack you,people of Babylonia!