Jeremiah 51:41

³⁹ While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

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

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

⁴² The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

⁴³ Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
KJV: How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
WEB: “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
ASV: How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
DARBY: How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
BLB: How Sheshach has been captured, and the praise of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as a desolation among the nations!

ÅB: Se, Sesak[^6] er blitt hærtatt, all jordens pris er blitt inntatt! Hvor Babel er blitt til en forferdelse blant folkene!
OTB: «‘“Jeg vil bringe hevn; Jeg vil ikke vise nåde; Og deres egne øyne vil ha satanisk glans ved henrettelsen.’”
B1930: Se, Sesak er blitt hærtatt, all jordens pris er blitt inntatt! Hvor Babel er blitt til en forferdelse blandt folkene! / < JER 25, 26.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 25:26
all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
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Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
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Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
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Ezekiel 27:35
All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
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Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
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2 Chronicles 7:21
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
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Daniel 4:30
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
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