37Babylon will become a heap of rubble,
a haunt for jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,
without inhabitant.
38They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl like lion cubs.
39While they are flushed with heat,
I will serve them a feast,
and I will make them drunk
so that they may revel;
then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up,
declares the LORD.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
41How Sheshach has been captured!
The praise of all the earth has been seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
42The sea has come up over Babylon;
she is covered in turbulent waves.
43Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no son of man passes through.
44I will punish Bel in Babylon.
I will make him spew out what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even the wall of Babylon will fall.
— Jeremiah 51:37-44