# Jeremiah 51.39 **Book:** [Jeremiah](/codex/jeremiah/) · NASB95 ## Immediate context (±2 verses) **ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/)) > 37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38. They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps. > > **39. When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.** > > 40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. 41. How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jeremiah 51:37-41, ASV) **WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/)) > 37. Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38. They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs. > > **39. When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.** > > 40. “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. 41. “How Sheshach is taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! (Jeremiah 51:37-41, WEB) **KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/)) > 37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. 38. They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. yell: or, shake themselves > > **39. In 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.** > > 40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. 41. How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! (Jeremiah 51:37-41, KJV) **YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/)) > 37. And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38. Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps. > > **39. In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not, an affirmation of Jehovah.** > > 40. I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats. 41. How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations. (Jeremiah 51:37-41, YLT) ## Setting - **Speaker:** _TBD_ - **Audience:** _TBD_ - **Location:** _TBD_ - **Time period:** _TBD_ ## Theological reading _Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._ ## Key words _Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._ - [H5769 - olam](/codex/h5769-olam/), *olam*, Strong's H5769 - [H3068 - YHWH](/codex/h3068-yhwh/), *YHWH*, Strong's H3068 ## Notes _Your annotations._ ## Why these four translations ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance. The four: - **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition. - **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English. - **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base. - **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff. See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.