^{41 Ref} How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

^{42 Ref} Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

^{43 Ref} Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.