Jeremiah 51:36-44
Lexham English Bible
36 Therefore[a] thus says Yahweh,
“Look, I am going to contend your case,
and I will avenge your vengeance,
and I will cause her sea to dry up,
and I will cause her fountain to dry up.
37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones,
a lair of jackals,
an object of horror, and an object of hissing,
without[b] inhabitants.
38 They will roar together like the young lions,
they will growl like the cubs of lions.
39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets,
and I will make them drunk,
so that they will fall into a swoon,
and they will sleep an everlasting sleep,[c]
and they will not wake up,” declares[d] Yahweh.
40 “I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter,
like rams and goats.
41 How Sheshach is captured,
and the glory of all the earth is seized!
How Babylon has become as an object of horror
among the nations!
42 The sea has risen over Babylon,
she has been covered by the roar of its waves.
43 Her cities have become as an object of horror,
a dry land and a wilderness,[e]
a land in which no person lives,
nor does a son of humankind pass through it.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and I will wrench out from his mouth what he has swallowed.[f]
And the nations will not stream towards him any longer
what’s worse,[g] the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:36 Literally “To thus”
- Jeremiah 51:37 Literally “from there is not”
- Jeremiah 51:39 Literally “a sleep of eternity”
- Jeremiah 51:39 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 51:43 Or “Arabah”
- Jeremiah 51:44 Literally “what has been swallowed by him”
- Jeremiah 51:44 Literally “also”
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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