41 “Oh, how (A)Sheshach[a] is taken!
Oh, how (B)the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
42 (C)The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43 (D)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where (E)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 A code word for Babylon, Jer. 25:26

41 “How Sheshak[a](A) will be captured,(B)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(C) Babylon will be
    among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon;
    its roaring waves(D) will cover her.
43 Her towns will be desolate,
    a dry and desert(E) land,
a land where no one lives,
    through which no one travels.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.