33For thus says the LORD 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 her harvest will come."

34"Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.

35The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say.

36Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,

37and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

38"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

39While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.

40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.

41"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

42The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

43Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.