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39 (A)While they are inflamed (B)I will prepare them a feast
    and (C)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
(D)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 (E)Babylon[a] is taken,
    (F)the praise of the whole earth (G)seized!
How Babylon has become
    a horror among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon

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.