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Jeremiah 51:39

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In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 51:37

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

  2. Jeremiah 51:38

    They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

  3. Jeremiah 51:40

    I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

  4. 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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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.