Jeremiah 51:36-44
Legacy Standard Bible
36 Therefore thus says Yahweh,
“Behold, I am going to (A)plead your case
And (B)exact full vengeance for you;
And (C)I will dry up her [a]sea
And make her fountain dry.
37 (D)Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An (E)object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38 They will roar together like (F)young lions;
They will growl like lions’ cubs.
39 When they become heated up, I will set before them their feast
And (G)make them drunk, that they may exult
And may (H)sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares Yahweh.
40 “I will bring them down like [b]lambs (I)to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How [c](J)Sheshak has been captured,
And (K)the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42 The [d](L)sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become an (M)object of horror,
A parched land, and a desert,
A land in which (N)no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.
44 (O)I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed (P)come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer (Q)stream to him.
Even the (R)wall of Babylon has fallen down!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:36 Or broad river
- Jeremiah 51:40 Or young rams
- Jeremiah 51:41 Cryptic name for Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:42 Or broad river
Jeremiah 51:36-44
New American Standard Bible 1995
36 Therefore thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am going to (A)plead your case
And (B)exact full vengeance for you;
And (C)I will dry up her [a]sea
And make her fountain dry.
37 “(D)Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An (E)object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38 “They will roar together like (F)young lions,
They will growl like lions’ cubs.
39 “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And (G)make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
And may (H)sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
40 “I will bring them down like [b]lambs (I)to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How [c](J)Sheshak has been captured,
And (K)the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42 “The [d](L)sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
43 “Her cities have become an (M)object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which (N)no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.
44 “(O)I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed (P)come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer (Q)stream to him.
Even the (R)wall of Babylon has fallen down!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:36 Or broad river
- Jeremiah 51:40 Or young rams
- Jeremiah 51:41 Cryptic name for Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:42 Or broad river
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