Thomson(i)
36 [J] For this cause, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will judge thine adversary and avenge thy cause; and I will drain off her sea and make her fountain dry,
37 and Babylon shall be a desolation and shall not be inhabited.
38 Because they roused together like lions and like lions' whelps;
39 in their heat I will give them a draught and make them drunk; that they may be stupefied and sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake, saith the Lord.
40 [p] Down, down with them, like lambs to slaughter and like rams and he goats.
41 How the boast of the whole earth is hunted and taken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42 The sea came up against Babylon with its roaring waves, and she is overwhelmed.
43 Her cities are become like a land without water, an untrodden desert. Not an individual can dwell there: nor can a son of man lodge in her.
44 [J] I will indeed punish Babylon and bring forth out of her mouth what she hath swallowed. And the nations shall no more be gathered together to her; nor shall the victims of the whole earth fall by Babylon.
45 Away from her country,
46 [Omitted]