39 (A)While they are inflamed (B)I will prepare them a feast
    and (C)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
(D)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 (E)Babylon[a] is taken,
    (F)the praise of the whole earth (G)seized!
How Babylon has become
    a horror among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon

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