^{35 Ref} May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.

^{36 Ref} For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

^{37 Ref} And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

^{38 Ref} They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

^{39 Ref} When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

^{40 Ref} I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.

^{41 Ref} How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

^{42 Ref} The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.

^{43 Ref} Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

^{44 Ref} And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

^{45 Ref} My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.

^{46 Ref} So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.

^{47 Ref} For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.

^{48 Ref} And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.

^{49 Ref} As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.

^{50 Ref} You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

^{51 Ref} We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

^{52 Ref} For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.

^{53 Ref} Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

^{54 Ref} There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:

^{55 Ref} For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:

^{56 Ref} For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.

^{57 Ref} And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.

^{58 Ref} The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.