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Jeremiah 51:40-42
International Standard Version
Jeremiah 51:40-42
International Standard Version
40 “I’ll bring them down like lambs for the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
41 “How Sheshak[a] will be captured,
and the prince of all the earth seized!
How Babylon will become an object of horror
among the nations!
42 The sea will come up against Babylon,
and she will be covered by wave upon wave.[b]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:42 Lit. its many waves
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