Jeremiah 51:39-41

Darby Translation

³⁹When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

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Jeremiah 51:39-41

New International Version

³⁹But while they are aroused,
    I will set out a feast for them
    and make them drunk,^(A)
so that they shout with laughter—
    then sleep forever^(B) and not awake,”
declares the Lord.^(C)
⁴⁰“I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.^(D)