Jeremiah 51:36-42

36Therefore the Lord says, “I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.

37Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

38The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

39When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the Lord.

40“I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.”

41“See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

42The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.