Jeremiah 51:41

World English Bible (WEB)

“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

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39 When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the LORD.

40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

41 “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

42 The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.

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Jeremiah 51:41 in every translation

WEB World English Bible: “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
KJV King James Version: How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
BSB Berean Standard Bible: How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
ASV American Standard Version: How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
YLT Young's Literal Translation: How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.
DBY Darby Translation: How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
WBS Webster Bible: How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!