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Jeremiah 51:36-44
Common English Bible
Jeremiah 51:36-44
Common English Bible
36 Therefore, the Lord proclaims:
I’m going to defend your cause;
I’ll turn the tables on your attacker.
I’ll dry up her sea;
I’ll shut up her springs.
37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins,
a den of wild dogs, a wasteland
with no one left in it.
38 Like lions they will roar together;
they will growl like lions’ cubs.
39 They are ready to devour,
so I’ll prepare the feast
and mix the drinks!
But after their noisy drunkenness,
they will fall fast asleep.
They will sleep forever,
never to get up,
declares the Lord.
40 I’ll lead them off
like lambs for slaughter,
like rams and goats.
41 How Sheshach[a] has been defeated,
the pride of the whole earth taken captive!
How Babylon has become a wasteland
among the nations!
42 The sea has risen over Babylon;
its pounding waves overwhelm her.
43 Her towns are devastated;
her land is scorched and barren,
a place where no one lives
or dares to pass through.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon;
I will force him to vomit what he’s consumed.
Then nations will no longer stream to him,
and Babylon’s walls will collapse!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshach is a name for Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:36-44
New International Version
Jeremiah 51:36-44
New International Version
36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:
“See, I will defend your cause(A)
and avenge(B) you;
I will dry up(C) her sea
and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
a haunt(D) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,(E)
a place where no one lives.(F)
38 Her people all roar like young lions,(G)
they growl like lion cubs.
39 But while they are aroused,
I will set out a feast for them
and make them drunk,(H)
so that they shout with laughter—
then sleep forever(I) and not awake,”
declares the Lord.(J)
40 “I will bring them down
like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats.(K)
41 “How Sheshak[a](L) will be captured,(M)
the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(N) Babylon will be
among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon;
its roaring waves(O) will cover her.
43 Her towns will be desolate,
a dry and desert(P) land,
a land where no one lives,
through which no one travels.(Q)
44 I will punish Bel(R) in Babylon
and make him spew out(S) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
And the wall(T) of Babylon will fall.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
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