Yahweh will get revenge on Babylon

36 And this is what Yahweh replies to the people of Jerusalem:

“I will be like your lawyer to defend you,

and I will avenge you.

I will dry up the river in Babylon

and all the springs of water.

37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins,

a place where jackals/wolves live.

It will become a place that people are horrified about and will ridicule;

it will be a place where no one lives.

38 The people of Babylon will all roar like young lions;

they will growl like baby lions.

39 But while they are extremely hungry,

I will prepare a different kind of feast for them.

It is as though I will cause them to drink wine until they are very drunk,

with the result that they will fall asleep.

But they will never wake up from that sleep!

40 I will bring them down to a place where they will be slaughtered,

like [SIM] someone who takes lambs or rams or goats to where they will be slaughtered for sacrifices.

41 People all over the earth now ◄honor/praise► Babylon;

they say that it is a great city.

But I will cause it to become a place about which people of all nations are horrified.

42 The enemies of Babylon will cover the city like huge waves of the sea [DOU].

43 The towns in Babylonia will become ruins,

Babylonia will become a dry desert area.

It will be a land in which no one lives

and which no one walks through.

44 And I will punish Bel, the god that the people of Babylon worship,

and I will cause the people to give back what they have stolen [MET].

People of other nations will no longer come to worship Bel.

And the walls of Babylon will collapse.”