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Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Behold, I am going to plead your case And take vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.

Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

"Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

"They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

"When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph, And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord .

"I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

"How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth has been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

"The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed by its roaring waves.

The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

"Her cities have become an object of horror, A dry land and a desert, A land in which no one lives And through which no one of mankind passes.

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

"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 toward him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.