Jeremiah 51:39-41

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³⁹While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast
    and make them drunk, till they swoon away^[a]
and sleep a perpetual sleep
    and not wake, says the Lord.
⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and he-goats.

⁴¹“How Babylon^[b] is taken,
the praise of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!

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Jeremiah 51:39 Gk Vg: Heb rejoice
Jeremiah 51:41 Heb Sheshach, a cipher for Babylon

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