Jeremiah 51:41-49 - Babylon's Fate

⁴¹ How Sheshach has been captured,
the praise of the whole earth seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
⁴² The sea has risen over Babylon;
she is covered with its turbulent waves.
⁴³ Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being passes through.
⁴⁴ I will punish Bel in Babylon.
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even Babylon’s wall will fall.

⁴⁵ Come out from among her, My people!
Save your lives, each of you,
from the Lord’s burning anger.
⁴⁶ May you not become cowardly and fearful
when the report is proclaimed in the land,
for the report will come one year,
and then another the next year.
There will be violence in the land
with ruler against ruler.
⁴⁷ Therefore, look, the days are coming
when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
⁴⁸ Heaven and earth and everything in them
will shout for joy over Babylon
because the destroyers from the north
will come against her.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁴⁹ Babylon must fall because of the slain of Israel,
even as the slain of all the earth fell
because of Babylon.