“How Sheshach is taken!How the praise of the whole earth is seized!How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!”
Jeremiah 51:41 (WEB)
Context Reading
39When they are inflamed, I will make their feast,and I will make them drunk,that they may rejoice,and sleep a perpetual sleep,and not wake up,” says Yahweh. 40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams with male goats. 41“How Sheshach is taken!How the praise of the whole earth is seized!How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 42The sea has come up on Babylon.She is covered with the multitude of its waves. 43Her cities have become a desolation,a dry land, and a desert,a land in which no man dwells.No son of man passes by it.