“How Sheshach is taken!
The pride
Of the whole earth
Has been seized!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror
Among the nations!
The sea has risen
Over Babylon.
She has been covered
By its tumultuous waves.
Her cities have become
An object of horror,
A land of drought,
A desert,
A land in which no one lives.
No mortal person
Passes through.”
Sheshach is an atbash cipher for Babylon. This once proud country has been seized. Thus Babylon has become an object of horror to all the countries. The strong waves of the sea have covered her land. Her cities are horrible. They are like a dried up desert, where no one lives and no one even passes by.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 