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41 How Sheshach [Babylon] is taken! And the praise of the whole earth is surprised and seized! How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and a horror among the nations!

42 The sea has come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the tumult and multitude of its waves.

43 Her cities have become a desolation and a horror, a land of drought and a wilderness, a land in which no one lives, nor does any son of man pass through it.

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41 “How Sheshak[a](A) will be captured,(B)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(C) Babylon will be
    among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves(D) will cover her.
43 Her towns will be desolate,
    a dry and desert(E) land,
a land where no one lives,
    through which no one travels.(F)

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Footnotes

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