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41 “How Sheshak[a] will be captured,
    and the prince of all the earth seized!
How Babylon will become an object of horror
    among the nations!
42 The sea will come up against Babylon,
    and she will be covered by wave upon wave.[b]
43 Her cities will become an object of horror,
    a dry land and a desert,
a land in which no one lives,
    and through which no human being passes.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
  2. Jeremiah 51:42 Lit. its many waves