13 Because of the indignation of Jehovah she will not be inhabited,+ and she must become a desolate waste in her entirety.+ As for anyone passing along by Babylon, he will stare in astonishment and whistle on account of all her plagues.+

41 “O how Sheʹshach* has been captured,+ and how the Praise of the whole earth gets to be seized!+ How Babylon has become a mere object of astonishment among the nations!+

16 saying, ‘Too bad, too bad—the great city,+ clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and richly adorned with gold ornament and precious stone and pearl,+