rsv Jeremiah:51:33-44
rsv@Jeremiah:51:33 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."
rsv@Jeremiah:51:34 @ "Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:35 @ The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chalde'a," let Jerusalem say.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:36 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:37 @ and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:38 @ "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:39 @ While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:40 @ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:41 @ "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
rsv@Jeremiah:51:42 @ The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:43 @ Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.