^{35 Ref} The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

^{36 Ref} Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

^{37 Ref} And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

^{38 Ref} They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

^{39 Ref} In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

^{40 Ref} I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

^{41 Ref} How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!