56  for a destroyer has come upon her,

upon Babylon;

her warriors are taken;

their bows are broken in pieces,

^lfor the Lord is a God of recompense;

he will surely repay.

57  ^mI will make drunk her officials and her wise men,

ⁿher governors, her commanders, and her warriors;

they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,

declares ^othe King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.