⁴³ Horrible destruction will strike
    the nearby towns.
The land will become
    a barren desert,
where no one can live
    or even travel.
⁴⁴ I will punish Marduk,^[a]
    the god of Babylon,
and make him vomit out
    everything he gobbled up.
Then nations will no longer
    bring him gifts,
and Babylon's walls will crumble.

⁴⁵ Get out of Babylon, my people,
    and run for your lives,
before I strike the city
    in my anger!