According to Hebrew scholar Jerome (born in the fourth century C.E.), by his day Babylon was a hunting ground in which “beasts of every type ” roamed, and it remains desolate to this day.
მაგრამ როგორც ნაწინასწარმეტყველები იყო, ბაბილონი საბოლოოდ ჩვეულებრივ „ნანგრევებად“ იქცა.