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39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets,
    and I will make them drunk,
so that they will fall into a swoon,
    and they will sleep an everlasting sleep,[a]
    and they will not wake up,” declares[b] Yahweh.
40 “I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter,
    like rams and goats.
41 How Sheshach is captured,
    and the glory of all the earth is seized!
How Babylon has become as an object of horror
    among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:39 Literally “a sleep of eternity”
  2. Jeremiah 51:39 Literally “a declaration of”