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41 How Sheshach is captured,
    and the glory of all the earth is seized!
How Babylon has become as an object of horror
    among the nations!
42 The sea has risen over Babylon,
    she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
43 Her cities have become as an object of horror,
    a dry land and a wilderness,[a]
a land in which no person lives,
    nor does a son of humankind pass through it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:43 Or “Arabah”

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.