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37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones,
    a lair of jackals,
an object of horror, and an object of hissing,
    without[a] inhabitants.
38 They will roar together like the young lions,
    they will growl like the cubs of lions.
39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets,
    and I will make them drunk,
so that they will fall into a swoon,
    and they will sleep an everlasting sleep,[b]
    and they will not wake up,” declares[c] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:37 Literally “from there is not”
  2. Jeremiah 51:39 Literally “a sleep of eternity”
  3. Jeremiah 51:39 Literally “a declaration of”