41How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
43Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
44And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.
45My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
46So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
47For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.
