Yet, in the eighth century B.C.E., even before Babylon rose to the height of its glory, the prophet Isaiah foretold: “Babylon... must become as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
م .‏ پیش از آنکه بابل به اوج شکوه و جلال خود برسد ،‏ اشعیای نبی پیشگویی کرد :‏ « بابل .‏ .‏ .‏