“Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.”
Jeremiah 51:43 (BSB)
Context Reading
41How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations! 42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves. 43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through. 44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall. 45Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.