Jeremiah 51:37-43

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“^(A)Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An ^(B)object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

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“They will roar together like ^(C)young lions,
They will growl like lions’ cubs.

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“When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And ^(D)make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
And may ^(E)sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.

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“I will bring them down like ^(a)lambs ^(F)to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.

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“How ^(b)^(G)Sheshak has been captured,
And ^(H)the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

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“The ^(c)^(I)sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

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“Her cities have become an ^(J)object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which ^(K)no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 51:40: ['Or ', young rams]

b. Jeremiah 51:41: ['Cryptic name for Babylon']

c. Jeremiah 51:42: ['Or ', broad river]

Cross references:

A. Jeremiah 51:37: Revelation 18:2

B. Jeremiah 51:37: Jeremiah 25:9

C. Jeremiah 51:38: Jeremiah 2:15

D. Jeremiah 51:39: Jeremiah 25:27; Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 51:57

E. Jeremiah 51:39: Psalm 76:5

F. Jeremiah 51:40: Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 50:27

G. Jeremiah 51:41: Jeremiah 25:26

H. Jeremiah 51:41: Jeremiah 49:25

I. Jeremiah 51:42: Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Jeremiah 51:55; Daniel 9:26

J. Jeremiah 51:43: Jeremiah 50:12

K. Jeremiah 51:43: Isaiah 13:20; Jeremiah 2:6