20 She will never be inhabited,+ nor will she reside for generation after generation.+ And there the Arab will not pitch his tent, and no shepherds will let [their flocks] lie down there.

23 “And I will make her a possession of porcupines and reedy pools of water, and I will sweep her with the broom of annihilation,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies.

3 For against her a nation has come up from the north.+ It is the one that makes her land an object of astonishment, so that there proves to be no one dwelling in her.+ Both man* and domestic animal have taken flight.+ They have gone away.”+

39 Therefore the haunters of waterless regions* will dwell with the howling animals, and in her the ostriches* must dwell;+ and she will nevermore be dwelt in, nor will she reside for generation after generation.”+

29 And let the earth rock and be in severe pain,+ for against Babylon the thoughts of Jehovah have risen up to make the land of Babylon an object of astonishment, without an inhabitant.+

37 And Babylon must become piles of stones,+ the lair of jackals,+ an object of astonishment and something to whistle at, without an inhabitant.+

23 and no light of a lamp will ever shine in you again, and no voice of a bridegroom and of a bride will ever be heard in you again;+ because your traveling merchants+ were the top-ranking men+ of the earth, for by your spiritistic+ practice* all the nations were misled.