Jeremiah 51:41
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Note Sheshach is a code name for Babylon.
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Sheshach
- Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at Babylon, from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken, when they were heated with wine, was perhaps observed in honour of it.
- Jeremiah 25:26; Daniel 5:1–3
- the praise
- Jeremiah 49:25; Jeremiah 50:23; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:4; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 4:22, 30; Daniel 5:4, 5; Revelation 18:10–19
- an astonishment
- Jeremiah 51:37; Jeremiah 50:46; Deuteronomy 28:37; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Ezekiel 27:35