Jeremiah 51:38-43

38 Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.

39 But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the LORD.

40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

41 “How Sheshak^[a] will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!

42 The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

43 Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

Jeremiah 51:38-43 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51

The former part of this chapter is a continuation of the prophecy of the preceding chapter, concerning the destruction of Babylon, Jer 51:1-58; the latter part of it contains a prophecy of Jeremiah sent to the captives in Babylon by the hand of Seraiah, with the copy of the above prophecy against Babylon, and an order to fasten a stone to it, and cast it into the river Euphrates, as a sign, confirming the utter and irreparable ruin of Babylon, Jer 51:59-64.

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 5:29
• 2. S Isaiah 21:5
• 3. S Psalms 13:3
• 4. ver 57; S Jeremiah 50:24
• 5. Ezekiel 39:18
• 6. S Jeremiah 25:26
• 7. Isaiah 13:19
• 8. Jeremiah 50:13
• 9. S Psalms 18:4; Isaiah 8:7
• 10. S Isaiah 21:1
• 11. S ver 29,62; S Isaiah 13:20; Jeremiah 2:6

Footnotes

• [a]. "Sheshak" is a cryptogram for Babylon.