ISV(i)
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!
42 The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.
43 Her cities will become an object of horror, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no human being passes.
44 I’ll punish Bel in Babylon, and I’ll make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth. The nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon will fall.