37. Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.
38. Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.
39. But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the Lord.
40. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
41. “How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!
42. The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
43. Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.