Jeremiah 51:41 · KJV
“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!”
— Jeremiah 51:41
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Jeremiah 51 — Context
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.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
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 up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth {any} son of man pass thereby.
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.
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. {as...: Heb. as the overthrowing}
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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?
Isaiah 14:4
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! {proverb: or, taunting speech} {golden...: or, exactress of gold}
Daniel 5:1-5
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.