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39 When they are ravenous, I will spread a feast.
I will make them drunk,
so that they will celebrate,[a]
and then they will go to sleep forever
and never wake up, declares the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats.

41 How Sheshak[b] is captured!
The pride of the whole earth is seized!
Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:39 The translation follows the Hebrew. The Greek and Latin read pass out.
  2. Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cypher or cryptogram for Babylon. It is written in reverse alphabet: A=Z, B=Y, etc. In the Hebrew alphabet, bbl reversed is shshk.

39 But while they are aroused,
    I will set out a feast for them
    and make them drunk,(A)
so that they shout with laughter—
    then sleep forever(B) and not awake,”
declares the Lord.(C)
40 “I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.(D)

41 “How Sheshak[a](E) will be captured,(F)
    the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate(G) Babylon will be
    among the nations!

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Footnotes

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