Jeremiah 51:40-42

The Voice

⁴⁰ I will bring these proud lions down like lambs going to their own slaughter.
Like rams and goats they will be humbled.

Prophets see things not as they are but as they will be. Babylon is still powerful, but her end is coming. Jeremiah sees her fall as an accomplished fact.

⁴¹    How Babylon^[a] has been captured!
        Babylon, the pride of all the earth, has fallen!
    How mighty Babylon has become an object of horror
        among all the nations that once feared and admired her.
⁴²    The rising tide of the sea has flooded Babylon.
        She disappears beneath its raging waves.