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39 When they become hot,
I will set out a banquet for them
and will make them so drunk
that they become merry—
and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
40 “I will drag them down
like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he-goats.
41 How has Sheshach[a] been taken,
the praise of the whole earth seized?
How has Babylon become
a horror among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Another name for Babylon.