World English Bible
"How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!"
— Jeremiah 51:41, World English Bible
“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!”
“How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! ”
““See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!”
“How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?”
“How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!”
“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!”
They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.