41 Wow, Babylon (Heb. Sheshak) has been captured.

≈ The city praised by the whole world has been seized.

Wow, Babylon has become a horror among the nations.

42 The sea has come up over Babylon.

It’s been covered by its violent waves.

43 Its cities have become a wasteland, a dry, wilderness region—

an area that no one lives in, and no human being even passes through.

44 I’ll punish Babylon’s god Bel

and I’ll pull what he swallowed back out of his mouth,

Then the nations will no longer go streaming to him to placate him.

What’s more, Babylon’s walls will fall.

45 Come out from Babylon, my people.

Each of you should save their own life from Yahweh’s furious anger.

46 Don’t be discouraged or afraid due to the report that’s heard in the land,

as there’ll be a report one year and the again the year after.

There’ll be violence will in the world—ruler will be against ruler.

47 Therefore, listen, the time is coming when I’ll punish the Babylon’s carved idols.

People across their country will be ashamed,

and their slaughtered soldiers will all fall right there in their country.

48 Then the heavens and the earth, and everyone in them will celebrate over Babylon’s fall

because destroyers from the north will come for it[ref]

That is Yahweh’s declaration.49 As Babylon has made Yisrael’s slain warriors fall,

so too their slain will fall in Babylon.[ref]