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

41 “How (A)Babylon[a] is taken,
    (B)the praise of the whole earth (C)seized!
How Babylon has become
    a horror among the nations!
42 (D)The sea has come up on Babylon;
    she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:41 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon

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