“How Sheshach is taken!
How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 51:41 in context
Jeremiah 51:38–44
38
They will roar together like young lions.
They will growl as lions’ cubs.
39
When they are inflamed, I will make their feast,
and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake up,” says the LORD.
40
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
41
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“How Sheshach is taken!
How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42
The sea has come up on Babylon.
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43
Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry land, and a desert,
a land in which no man dwells.
No son of man passes by it.
44
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.
The nations will not flow any more to him.
Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
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