Jeremiah 51:37-43

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Babylon will become a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den,
a desolation and an object of scorn,^(A)
without inhabitant.

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They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl like lion cubs.

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While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast,
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.^(a)^(B)
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams together with male goats.^(C)

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How Sheshach has been captured,
the praise^(D) of the whole earth seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!^(E)

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The sea has risen over Babylon;^(F)
she is covered with its turbulent waves.

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Her cities have become a desolation,^(G)
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being passes through.

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 51:39: LXX reads pass out

Cross references:

A. Jeremiah 51:37: 2 Chronicles 29:8; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8

B. Jeremiah 51:39: Jeremiah 51:57

C. Jeremiah 51:40: Isaiah 34:6; Ezekiel 39:18

D. Jeremiah 51:41: Jeremiah 33:9; Jeremiah 49:25

E. Jeremiah 51:41: Jeremiah 50:23

F. Jeremiah 51:42: Isaiah 8:7-8

G. Jeremiah 51:43: Jeremiah 50:12