CLV(i)
34 Devoured us, crushed us, has Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He has set us [as] an empty vessel, He has swallowed us as a dragon, He has filled his belly with my dainties, He has driven us away."
35 My wrong, and [that of] my flesh [is] on Babylon, Say does the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood [is] on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say does Jerusalem."
36 Therefore, thus said Yahweh:Lo, I am pleading your cause, And I have avenged your vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry."
37 And Babylon has been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant."
38 Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps."
39 In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep eonian, And awake not--an affirmation of Yahweh."
40 I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats."
41 How has Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How has Babylon been for an astonishment among nations."
42 Come up against Babylon has the sea, With a multitude of its billows it has been covered."
43 Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land--none does dwell in them, Nor pass over into them does a son of man."
44 And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed--from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon has fallen."
45 Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver you, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Yahweh,
46 And lest your heart be tender, And you be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in a year has the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence [is] in the land, ruler against ruler;"