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41 How she has been seized, taken captive,
    the glory of the whole world!
What a horror Babylon has become among the nations:(A)
42     against Babylon the sea rises,
    she is overwhelmed by roaring waves!
43 Her cities have become wasteland,
    a parched and arid land
Where no one lives,
    no one passes through.

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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.