A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 51:41
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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!
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The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 51:39
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.
- Jeremiah 51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
- Jeremiah 51:42
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
- Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.