Jeremiah 51:41-49

New International Version

⁴¹ “How Sheshak^[a](A) will be captured,^(B)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate^(C) Babylon will be
    among the nations!
⁴² The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves^(D) will cover her.
⁴³ Her towns will be desolate,
    a dry and desert^(E) land,
a land where no one lives,
    through which no one travels.^(F)
44 I will punish Bel^(G) in Babylon
    and make him spew out^(H) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
    And the wall^(I) of Babylon will fall.

⁴⁵ “Come out^(J) of her, my people!
    Run^(K) for your lives!
    Run from the fierce anger^(L) of the Lord.
⁴⁶ Do not lose heart^(M) or be afraid^(N)
    when rumors^(O) are heard in the land;
one rumor comes this year, another the next,
    rumors of violence in the land
    and of ruler against ruler.
⁴⁷ For the time will surely come
    when I will punish the idols^(P) of Babylon;
her whole land will be disgraced^(Q)
    and her slain will all lie fallen within her.^(R)
48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout^(S) for joy over Babylon,
for out of the north^(T)
    destroyers^(U) will attack her,”
declares the Lord.

⁴⁹ “Babylon must fall because of Israel’s slain,
    just as the slain in all the earth
    have fallen because of Babylon.^(V)