^{31 Ref} One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

^{32 Ref} and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

^{33 Ref} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

^{34 Ref} Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

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

^{36 Ref} Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

^{37 Ref} Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

^{38 Ref} They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

^{39 Ref} When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.