Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!In other versions
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
ASV
How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
BBE
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
DBY
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
WEB
How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.
YLT
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
ENG
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
WBT
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
BSB
In context
39In 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.