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Jeremiah 51:56-58
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Jeremiah 51:56-58
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
56 for a destroyer has come against her,
against Babylon;
her warriors are taken,
their bows are broken;
for the Lord is a God of recompense,
he will repay in full.
57 I will make her officials and her sages drunk,
also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake,
says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing,
and the nations weary themselves only for fire.[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:58 Gk Syr Compare Hab 2.13: Heb and the nations for fire, and they are weary
Jeremiah 51:56-58
New International Version
Jeremiah 51:56-58
New International Version
56 A destroyer(A) will come against Babylon;
her warriors will be captured,
and their bows will be broken.(B)
For the Lord is a God of retribution;
he will repay(C) in full.
57 I will make her officials(D) and wise(E) men drunk,(F)
her governors, officers and warriors as well;
they will sleep(G) forever and not awake,”
declares the King,(H) whose name is the Lord Almighty.
58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
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