39 When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And (A)make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph,
And may (B)sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
40 “I will bring them down like [a]lambs (C)to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.

41 “How [b](D)Sheshak has been captured,
And (E)the praise of the whole earth has been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:40 Or young rams
  2. Jeremiah 51:41 Cryptic 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.