41 How is [a]Sheshach taken! and how is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The [b]sea is come up upon Babel: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

43 Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the son of man pass thereby.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Meaning, Babel, as Jer. 25:26.
  2. Jeremiah 51:42 The great army of the Medes and Persians.

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