⁶²Say, ‘Lord, you have threatened to cut off^f this place so that no one will live in it—people or animals.^g Indeed, it will remain desolate forever.’

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Cross references

f 1Sm 20:15; Ps 109:13; Is 10:7; Jr 9:21; 44:11; 47:4; Ob 14
g Ps 135:8; Jr 7:20; 21:6; 32:43; 33:10,12; 36:29; 50:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then say, ‘Lord, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’

NLTNew Living Translation

Then say, ‘Lord, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you must say, ‘Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals, for it will be an everlasting desolation.’

KJV 1900King James Version

Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

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