Isa 13:20-22, 14:22, Jer 25:12, 50:35-40, 51:25-26, 43, 62-64, Rev 18:21-23 | ESV | STEP | It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations ; no Arab will pitch his tent there ; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there .

20 ^aIt will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no ^bArab will pitch his tent there;
no ^cshepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But ^dwild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^eostriches ^{▼▼Or owls} will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas ^{▼▼Or foxes} will cry in its towers,
and ^hjackals in ⁱthe pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14:22

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and ^jremnant, ^kdescendants and posterity,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:12

12 Then after ^lseventy years are completed, ^mI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ⁿthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^omaking the land an everlasting waste.

Jeremiah 50:35-40

35 “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,
and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
and against ^pher officials and her ^qwise men!
36 A sword against the diviners,
that they may become fools!
A sword against her ^rwarriors,
that they may be destroyed!
37 A sword against her horses and against her chariots,
and against all ^sthe foreign troops in her midst,
that ^tthey may become women!
^uA sword against all her treasures,
that they may be plundered!
38 ^vA drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
^wFor it is a land of images,
and they are mad over idols.
39 ^x“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 40 ^yAs when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, ^zso no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

Jeremiah 51:25-26

25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,

declares the Lord,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
^aaand make you a burnt mountain.
26 No ^abstone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be ^aca perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:43

43 Her cities have become a horror,
^ada land of drought and a desert,
^aea land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.

Jeremiah 51:62-64

62 and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so ^afthat nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be ^agdesolate forever.’ 63 When you finish reading this book, ^ah, ^aitie a stone to it ^ajand cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, 64 and say, ^ak‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, ^aland they shall become exhausted.’”

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Revelation of John 18:21-23

21 Then ^ama mighty angel ^antook up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,

“So will Babylon ^aothe great city be thrown down with violence,
and will be found no more;
22 and ^apthe sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
will be found in you no more,
and ^aqthe sound of the mill
will be heard in you no more,
23 and the light of a lamp
will shine in you no more,
and ^arthe voice of bridegroom and bride
will be heard in you no more,
for ^asyour merchants were the great ones of the earth,
and all nations were deceived ^atby your sorcery.