³⁹ But while they are aroused,
    I will set out a feast for them
    and make them drunk,^(A)
so that they shout with laughter—
    then sleep forever^(B) and not awake,”
declares the Lord.^(C)
40 “I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.^(D)

⁴¹ “How Sheshak^[a](E) will be captured,^(F)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate^(G) Babylon will be
    among the nations!