Jeremiah 51:56-58

New International Version

⁵⁶A destroyer^(A) will come against Babylon;
    her warriors will be captured,
    and their bows will be broken.^(B)
For the Lord is a God of retribution;
    he will repay^(C) in full.
⁵⁷I will make her officials^(D) and wise^(E) men drunk,^(F)
    her governors, officers and warriors as well;
they will sleep^(G) forever and not awake,”
    declares the King,^(H) whose name is the Lord Almighty.

⁵⁸This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Babylon’s thick wall^(I) will be leveled
and her high gates^(J) set on fire;
the peoples^(K) exhaust^(L) themselves for nothing,
the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”^(M)

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Jeremiah 51:56-58

New King James Version

⁵⁶Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men are taken.
Every one of their bows is broken;
^(A)For the Lord is the God of recompense,
He will surely repay.

⁵⁷“And I will make drunk
Her princes and ^(B)wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says ^(C)the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.

⁵⁸Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly ^(D)broken,^[a]
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
^(E)The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”

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