Jeremiah 51:39-41

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³⁹When 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.
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!

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Footnotes

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

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