^{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!

^{42 Ref} The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.

^{43 Ref} Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

^{44 Ref} I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.