Jeremiah 51:41
“How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?”
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Jeremiah 51:41 Context
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. 40I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates. 41How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations? 42The sea is come vp vpon Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof. 43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doeth any sonne of man passe thereby.
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How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- King James Version
"How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
- New American Standard Version (1995)