Jeremiah 51:41

41 “How Sheshak[a] will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:41 in Other Translations

KJV
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
ESV
41 "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
NLT
41 “How Babylon is fallen— great Babylon, praised throughout the earth! Now she has become an object of horror among the nations.
MSG
41 "Babylon is finished - the pride of the whole earth is flat on her face. What a comedown for Babylon, to end up inglorious in the sewer!
CSB
41 How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:41 In-Context

39 But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the LORD.
40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
41 “How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!
42 The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
43 Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

Cross References 3

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "Sheshak" is a cryptogram for Babylon.
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