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With you I will break in pieces the 33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
young man and the maiden; Israel:
23 With you also I will break in pieces the
shepherd and his flock; “The daughter of Babylon is like a
threshing floor
With you I will break in pieces the When it is time to thresh her;
farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces Yet a little while
And the time of her harvest will come.”
governors and rulers.
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
“And I will repay Babylon Has devoured me, he has crushed me;
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And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done He has made me an empty vessel,
In Zion in your sight,” says the LORD. He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying delicacies,
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mountain, He has spit me out.
Who destroys all the earth,” 35 Let the violence done to me and my
says the LORD. flesh be upon Babylon,”
“And I will stretch out My hand The inhabitant of Zion will say;
against you, “And my blood be upon the inhabitants
Roll you down from the rocks, of Chaldea!”
And make you a burnt mountain. Jerusalem will say.
26 They shall not take from you a stone
for a corner 36 Therefore thus says the LORD:
Nor a stone for a foundation, “Behold, I will plead your case and take
But you shall be desolate forever,” vengeance for you.
says the LORD.
I will dry up her sea and make her
27 Set up a banner in the land, springs dry.
Blow the trumpet among the nations! 37 Babylon shall become a heap,
Prepare the nations against her, A dwelling place for jackals,
Call the kingdoms together against her: An astonishment and a hissing,
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Without an inhabitant.
Appoint a general against her; 38 They shall roar together like lions,
Cause the horses to come up like the They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
bristling locusts. 39 In their excitement I will prepare
Prepare against her the nations, their feasts;
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With the kings of the Medes, I will make them drunk,
Its governors and all its rulers, That they may rejoice,
All the land of his dominion. And sleep a perpetual sleep
29 And the land will tremble and sorrow; And not awake,” says the LORD.
For every purpose of the LORD shall be 40 “I will bring them down
performed against Babylon, Like lambs to the slaughter,
To make the land of Babylon Like rams with male goats.
a desolation without inhabitant.
The mighty men of Babylon have
30 41 “Oh, how Sheshach is taken!
ceased fighting, Oh, how the praise of the whole earth
They have remained in their is seized!
strongholds; How Babylon has become desolate
Their might has failed, among the nations!
They became like women; 42 The sea has come up over Babylon;
They have burned her dwelling places, She is covered with the multitude
The bars of her gate are broken. of its waves.
31 One runner will run to meet another, 43 Her cities are a desolation,
And one messenger to meet another, A dry land and a wilderness,
To show the king of Babylon that his A land where no one dwells,
city is taken on all sides; Through which no son of man passes.
The passages are blocked, I will punish Bel in Babylon,
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The reeds they have burned with fire, And I will bring out of his mouth what
And the men of war are terrified. he has swallowed;

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