Jeremiah 51:34-40

English Standard Version

³⁴“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon ^(A)has devoured me;
    he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
    ^(B)he has swallowed me like ^(C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
    he has rinsed me out.^[a]
³⁵The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
    let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    let Jerusalem say.
³⁶Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(D)I will plead your cause
    and take vengeance for you.
^(E)I will dry up her sea
    and ^(F)make her fountain dry,
³⁷and Babylon shall become ^(G)a heap of ruins,
    ^(H)the haunt of jackals,
^(I)a horror ^(J)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

³⁸^(K)“They shall roar together ^(L)like lions;
    they shall growl like lions' cubs.
³⁹^(M)While they are inflamed ^(N)I will prepare them a feast
    and ^(O)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
^(P)then sleep a perpetual sleep
    and not wake, declares the Lord.
⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and male goats.