Jeremiah 51:40-42

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⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and he-goats.

⁴¹“How Babylon^[a] is taken,
    the praise of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
    a horror among the nations!
⁴²The sea has come up on Babylon;
    she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

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Jeremiah 51:41 Heb Sheshach, a cipher for Babylon

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