36. Therefore thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
37. Babylon shall become a heap,A dwelling place for jackals,An astonishment and a hissing,Without an inhabitant.
38. They shall roar together like lions,They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
39. In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;I will make them drunk,That they may rejoice,And sleep a perpetual sleepAnd not awake,” says the Lord.
40. “I will bring them downLike lambs to the slaughter,Like rams with male goats.