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Jeremiah 51:40-42
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40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams with male goats.

41 “How Sheshach is taken!
    How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
    How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42 The sea has come up on Babylon.
    She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

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Jeremiah 51:40-42
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40 “I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.(A)

41 “How Sheshak[a](B) will be captured,(C)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(D) Babylon will be
    among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves(E) will cover her.

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Footnotes

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