Jeremiah 51:41

41 "How 1Babylon[a] is taken, 2the praise of the whole earth 3seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:41 In-Context

39 While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.
41 "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
42 The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

Cross References 3

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon
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