9 And here, now, there is coming a war chariot of men,* [with] a span of steeds!”+

And he began to speak up and say: “She has fallen! Babylon has fallen,+ and all the graven images of her gods* he has broken to the earth!”+

8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen, so that she is broken.+ Howl over her, YOU people.+ Take balsam for her pain.+ Perhaps she may be healed.”

31 “One runner runs to meet another runner, and one reporter to meet another reporter,+ to report to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured at every end,*+

39 “When they are heated I shall set their banquets and I will make them drunk, in order that they may exult;*+ and they must sleep an indefinitely lasting sleep,* from which they will not wake up,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

57 And I will make her princes and her wise ones, her governors and her deputy rulers and her mighty men drunk,+ and they must sleep an indefinitely lasting sleep,* from which they will not wake up,”+ is the utterance of the King,+ whose name is Jehovah of armies.+