(40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.

Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.

Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.

The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.