Jeremiah 51:40-42

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

⁴¹How Sheshach^[a] is taken,
    the pride of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
    an object of horror among the nations!
⁴²The sea has risen over Babylon;
    she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshach is a cryptogram for Babel, Babylon

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.