Jeremiah 51:36-44
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
I am going to defend your cause
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain dry,(A)
37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,
a den of jackals,
an object of horror and of hissing,
without inhabitant.(B)
38 Like lions they shall roar together;
they shall growl like lions’ whelps.
39 When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink
and make them drunk, until they become merry
and then sleep a perpetual sleep
and never wake, says the Lord.(C)
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats.(D)
41 How Sheshach[a] is taken;
the pride of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
an object of horror among the nations!(E)
42 The sea has risen over Babylon;
she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.(F)
43 Her cities have become an object of horror,
a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one lives
and through which no mortal passes.(G)
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon
and make him disgorge what he has swallowed.
The nations shall no longer stream to him;
the wall of Babylon has fallen.(H)
Footnotes
- 51.41 That is, Babylon
Jeremiah 51:36-44
English Standard Version
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (A)I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for you.
(B)I will dry up her sea
and (C)make her fountain dry,
37 and Babylon shall become (D)a heap of ruins,
(E)the haunt of jackals,
(F)a horror (G)and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
38 (H)“They shall roar together (I)like lions;
they shall growl like lions' cubs.
39 (J)While they are inflamed (K)I will prepare them a feast
and (L)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
(M)then sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and male goats.
41 “How (N)Babylon[a] is taken,
(O)the praise of the whole earth (P)seized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!
42 (Q)The sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror,
(R)a land of drought and a desert,
(S)a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
44 And I will punish (T)Bel in Babylon,
and (U)take out of his mouth (V)what he has swallowed.
(W)The nations shall no longer flow to him;
(X)the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:41 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon
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