| The LORD will help Israel. Jr.51.36-40 | RSV Contents | notes| 51 | Revised Standard Version | Passage | Biblia Hebraica |
| 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; | The LORD will help Israel. Jr.51.36-40 | לָכֵן כֹּה אָמַר יְהוָה הִנְנִי־רָב אֶת־רִיבֵךְ וְנִקַּמְתִּי אֶת־נִקְמָתֵךְ וְהַחֲרַבְתִּי אֶת־יַמָּהּ וְהֹבַשְׁתִּי אֶת־מְקֹורָהּ׃ |
| 37 | and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant. | וְהָיְתָה בָבֶל לְגַלִּים מְעֹון־תַּנִּים שַׁמָּה וּשְׁרֵקָה מֵאֵין יֹושֵׁב׃ | |
| 38 | "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps. | יַחְדָּו כַּכְּפִרִים יִשְׁאָגוּ נָעֲרוּ כְּגֹורֵי אֲרָיֹות׃ | |
| 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. | בְּחֻםָּם אָשִׁית אֶת־מִשְׁתֵּיהֶם וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים לְמַעַן יַעֲלֹזוּ וְיָשְׁנוּ שְׁנַת־עֹולָם וְלֹא יָקִיצוּ נְאֻם יְהוָה׃ | |
| 40 | I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats. | אֹורִידֵם כְּכָרִים לִטְבֹוחַ כְּאֵילִים עִם־עַתּוּדִים׃ | |