39 But while they are aroused,
    I will set out a feast for them
    and make them drunk,
so that they shout with laughter –
    then sleep for ever and not awake,’
declares the Lord.
40 ‘I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.

41 ‘How Sheshak[a] will be captured,
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate Babylon will be
    among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.