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39 While they are stirred up,
    I will give a feast for them
    and make them drunk.
They will shout and laugh.
    And they will sleep forever and never wake up!” says the Lord.
40 “I will take the people of Babylon to be killed.
    They will be like lambs,
    like sheep and goats waiting to be killed.

41 “How Babylon has been defeated!
    The pride of the whole earth has been taken captive.
People from other nations are shocked at what happened to Babylon,
    and the things they see make them afraid.

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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.