^{41 Ref} How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

^{42 Ref} The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

^{43 Ref} Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.