51 We are [a]confounded because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces, for strangers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

52 Wherefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will visit her graven images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

53 Though Babel should mount up to [b]heaven, and though she should defend her strength on high, yet from me shall her destroyers come, saith the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:51 He showeth how they should remember Jerusalem by lamenting the miserable affliction thereof.
  2. Jeremiah 51:53 For the walls were two hundred foot high.

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