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39 When they are excited,
I will prepare a feast for them
and make them drunk so that they will shout and laugh.
They will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up again,
declares the Lord.
40 I will take them to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.

41 “Sheshach has been captured.
Babylon, the city that the whole world praised, has been taken captive.

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39 But 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)

41 “How Sheshak[a](E) will be captured,(F)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(G) Babylon will be
    among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.