⁴³ Babylon will be like a dry, desert land.
    Its cities will be empty ruins.
No one will live in those cities.
    No one will even travel through them.
⁴⁴ I will punish the false god Bel in Babylon.
    I will make him vomit out the people he swallowed.
The wall around Babylon will fall,
    and other nations will stop coming to Babylon.
⁴⁵ Come out of the city of Babylon, my people.
    Run to save your lives.
    Run from the Lord’s great anger.