^{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.

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

^{41 Ref} How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!