Jeremiah 51:41

³⁹ In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

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

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

⁴² The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

⁴³ Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
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Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
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Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
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Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
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Daniel 4:30
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
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