Jeremiah 51:39-41

The Voice

³⁹    And once they are stirred up,
        I will lay out a feast and make them all drunk
        until they laugh and feel happy.
    But when they fall asleep, they will sleep forever.
        This is what I, the Eternal One, promise you.
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.