New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 51:37-43

37 1Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An 2object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.38They will roar together like 3young lions, They will growl like lions’ cubs.39When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And 4make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph, And may 5sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up,” declares the Lord.40“I will bring them down like 6lambs 7to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

41“How 8 9Sheshak has been captured, And 10the praise of the whole earth has been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!42The 11 12sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed by its roaring waves.43Her cities have become an 13object of horror, A dry land and a desert, A land in which 14no one lives And through which no 15one of mankind passes.

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 51:37 Rev 18:2 ↩
2. Jeremiah 51:37 Jer 25:9 ↩
3. Jeremiah 51:38 Jer 2:15 ↩
4. Jeremiah 51:39 Jer 25:27; 48:26; 51:57 ↩
5. Jeremiah 51:39 Ps 76:5 ↩
6. Jeremiah 51:40 Or young rams ↩
7. Jeremiah 51:40 Jer 48:15; 50:27 ↩
8. Jeremiah 51:41 Cryptic name for Babylon ↩
9. Jeremiah 51:41 Jer 25:26 ↩
10. Jeremiah 51:41 Jer 49:25 ↩
11. Jeremiah 51:42 Or broad river ↩
12. Jeremiah 51:42 Is 8:7, 8; Jer 51:55; Dan 9:26 ↩
13. Jeremiah 51:43 Jer 50:12 ↩
14. Jeremiah 51:43 Is 13:20; Jer 2:6 ↩
15. Jeremiah 51:43 Lit son of man ↩

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