Jeremiah 51:36-37
The Lord personally takes up the cause of His people and brings ruin upon the empire that oppressed them.
36 Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
37 Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
The LORD personally takes up the cause of His people and brings ruin upon the empire that oppressed them.
To declare the LORD’s promise to avenge Zion by drying up Babylon’s power and turning the once-mighty city into a desolate ruin inhabited by wild creatures.
Jeremiah 51:36–37 forms God’s direct response to Zion’s lament, promising vindication and describing Babylon’s coming desolation.
Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates
The LORD will make Babylon sink under the weight of her violence, idolatry, pride, and bloodshed, while calling his people to flee, remember Zion, and trust his irreversible word.