ISV(i)
35 May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon,” says the inhabitant of Zion. “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
36 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Look, I’m going to argue your case and take vengeance for you. I’ll dry up her sea and make her fountain dry.
37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals, a desolate place and an object of scorn.
38 They’ll roar together like young lions; they’ll growl like lion cubs.
39 When they’re excited I’ll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they’re merry. They’ll sleep forever and won’t wake up,” declares the LORD.
40 “I’ll bring them down like lambs for the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
41 “How Sheshak will be captured, and the prince of all the earth seized! How Babylon will become an object of horror among the nations!