^{35 Ref} My wrong, and `that of' my flesh `is' on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood `is' on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.

^{36 Ref} Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

^{37 Ref} And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

^{38 Ref} Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.

^{39 Ref} In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

^{40 Ref} I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

^{41 Ref} How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.