^{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.