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41 Babylon has been seized and conquered,
    she who was the pride of the entire world.
What an object of horror
    has Babylon become among the nations.
42 The sea has surged over Babylon,
    covering her with its roaring waves.
43 Her cities have become desert wastelands,
    nothing more than parched and arid land,
an area in which no one lives
    and through which no one passes.

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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.