Jeremiah 50:38

Babylon’s waters would dry up, too, in judgment, because of the idolatry that was rampant there. The city of Babylon depended on waterways for irrigation and agriculture, just as the whole nation relied on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and their tributaries and canals. When Cyrus captured Babylon, he may have entered under the walls, using the dry riverbed, after he diverted the Euphrates River that flowed through the city. [Note: Harrison, Jeremiah and . . ., p. 185.] But cuneiform documents have put this account of Babylon’s fall by Herodotus in question. [Note: See Edward J. Young, The Book of Isaiah , 3:191.]