Jeremiah 51:39-41

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³⁹When the revelers are ^[a]inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath] and make them drunk, that they may rejoice and fall asleep to a perpetual sleep and not waken, says the Lord.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with he-goats.

⁴¹How Sheshach [Babylon] is taken! And the praise of the whole earth is surprised and seized! How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and a horror among the nations!

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 51:39 Here is God’s forecast through Jeremiah of what was going to happen to great Babylon, of whom Herodotus said she had been “embellished with ornaments more than any city” of his acquaintance. The fact that all of the details of the prophecy were carried out is recorded by Daniel (5:1-30), and becomes more and more amazing and awe-inspiring as one reflects on it all after twenty-five verifying centuries. Truly only an “[empty-headed] fool” could say in his heart, “There is no God” (Ps. 14:1).