⁶⁴ and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

⁵⁸ Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

⁴⁰ Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

²¹ A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

⁸ But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

⁹ What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.

²⁰ This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.

² He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

⁸ Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."

¹³ Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

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

²⁷ You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

¹² He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.