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41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become [a]a desolation among the nations! 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the [b]multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are become [c]a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Or, an astonishment
  2. Jeremiah 51:42 Or, tumult
  3. Jeremiah 51:43 Or, an astonishment

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.