Jer 51:38 "They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.
Jer 51:39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.
Jer 51:40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
Jer 51:41 ¶ "How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
Jer 51:42 "The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
Jer 51:43 "Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.
Jer 51:44 "I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
Jer 51:45 ¶ "Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jer 51:46 "Now so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the report that will be heard in the land-- For the report will come one year, And after that another report in another year, And violence will be in the land With ruler against ruler--
Jer 51:47 Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be put to shame And all her slain will fall in her midst.
Jer 51:48 "Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For the destroyers will come to her from the north," Declares the LORD.
Jer 51:49 ¶ Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
Jer 51:50 You who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from afar, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
Jer 51:51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For aliens have entered The holy places of the LORD'S house.
Jer 51:52 ¶ "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will punish her idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.
Jer 51:53 "Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, From Me destroyers will come to her," declares the LORD.
Jer 51:54 ¶ The sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Jer 51:55 For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud noise vanish from her. And their waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices sounds forth.
Jer 51:56 For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of recompense, He will fully repay.
Jer 51:57 "I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.