Isaias

19 And Babylon, which is called honourable by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be, like as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It shall not be inhabited for ever, nor shall they enter ’ it throughout many generations, nor shall the Arabians pass through it, nor shall shepherds rest therein.

21 And wild beasts shall rest there, and houses shall be filled with noise: and owls shall rest there, and demons shall dance there.

22 And apes shall dwell there, and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. Quickly it comes, and will not linger.

XIV. 1 And the Lord shall have pity on Jacob, and will yet choose out Israel, and they shall rest upon their own land; and the stranger shall be added unto them, and shall be added unto the house of Jacob.

2 And nations shall take them, and-bring them into their place; and they shall make them to inherit it, and shall be multiplied upon the land of God for bondmen and for bondwomen; and they that did carry them into captivity shall be captives, and they that were lords over them shall have them for lords.

3 And it shall be in that day, God shall make thee to rest from thy woe, and from thine indignation, and from thy hard bondage with which thou servedst them.

4 And ’ shalt take up this lament upon the king of Babylon, and say in that day, ’has the exactor ceased, and the oppressor ceased!

5 God hath broken in pieces the yoke of the sinners, the yoke of the rulers,

6 Smiting a nation in wrath, with a stroke that cannot be healed; striking a nation a wrathful blow which ’spareth not, he hath rested in confidence.

7 All the earth shouteth with joy,

8 And the trees of Lebanon rejoice over thee, and the cedar of Lebanon, (saying,) Since thou hast lain down to sleep, there hath not come up one that felleth us.