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39 While 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.
40 I 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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Footnotes

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

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