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41 How is Sheshach a prey! and how is she who was the praise of the whole earth taken! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles!

42 The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

43 Her cities were devastated, the land dry and desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall any son of man pass thereby.

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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.