51 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry; 51 37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
51 38 "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps. 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 Yahweh. 51 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.