Jeremiah 51:41-43
The empire that once ruled the nations becomes an object of astonishment when God brings it to ruin.
41 “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42 The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43 Her 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.
The empire that once ruled the nations becomes an object of astonishment when God brings it to ruin.
To lament the shocking fall of Babylon, describing the humiliation of the empire that once dominated the nations and portraying the city as abandoned and desolate.
Jeremiah 51:41–43 continues the prophetic announcement of Babylon’s downfall by describing the city’s sudden capture and transformation into desolation.
Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates
The LORD will make Babylon sink under the weight of her violence, idolatry, pride, and bloodshed, while calling his people to flee, remember Zion, and trust his irreversible word.