39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
^aI will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord. ‡

40 “I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

42 ^aThe sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves. ‡

43 ^aHer cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ^bno one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes. ‡