Jeremiah 51:37
“And Babylon shal become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant.”
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Jeremiah 51:37 Context
35The violence done to me and to my flesh, be vpon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood vpon the inhabitants of Caldea, shall Ierusalem say. 36Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I wil plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp her sea, and make her springs drie. 37And Babylon shal become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant. 38They shall roare together like lions; they shall yell as lions whelps. 39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the Lord.
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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- King James Version
"Babylon will become a heap {of ruins,} a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
- New American Standard Version (1995)