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.+
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.”+
40 “Just as with God’s overthrow of Sodʹom and of Go·morʹrah+ and of her neighbor [towns],”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “no man* will dwell there, nor will the son of mankind* reside in her as an alien.+