Jeremiah 51:41
“How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?”
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Jeremiah 51:41 Context
39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the Lord. 40I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates. 41How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations? 42The sea is come vp vpon Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof. 43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doeth any sonne of man passe thereby.
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Other Translations for Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- King James Version
"How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
- New American Standard Version (1995)
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- American Standard Version (1901)
How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
- Basic English Bible
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- Darby Bible
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- Webster's Bible
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- World English Bible
How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.
- Youngs Literal Bible
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Jeremiah 51:41
51:41 Sheshach - A name given to the city of Babylon.