“Her cities have become a desolation,a dry land, and a desert,a land in which no man dwells.No son of man passes by it.”
Jeremiah 51:43 (WEB)
Context Reading
41“How Sheshach is taken!How the praise of the whole earth is seized!How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 42The sea has come up on Babylon.She is covered with the multitude of its waves. 43Her cities have become a desolation,a dry land, and a desert,a land in which no man dwells.No son of man passes by it. 44I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.The nations will not flow any more to him.Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall. 45“My people, go away from the middle of her,and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.