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SEPTEMBER 11
Every man’s heart will melt, 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
8 And they will be afraid. The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Pangs and sorrows will take hold of Will be as when God overthrew Sodom
them; and Gomorrah.
They will be in pain as a woman in 20 It will never be inhabited,
childbirth; Nor will it be settled from generation
They will be amazed at one another; to generation;
Their faces will be like flames. Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes,
sheepfolds there.
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce 21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie
anger,
there,
To lay the land desolate; And their houses will be full of owls;
And He will destroy its sinners from it.
10 For the stars of heaven and their Ostriches will dwell there,
constellations 22 And wild goats will caper there.
Will not give their light; The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
The sun will be darkened in its going Her time is near to come,
forth,
And the moon will not cause its light And her days will not be prolonged.”
to shine. For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob,
14 and will still choose Israel, and settle them
11 “I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity; in their own land. The strangers will be joined
I will halt the arrogance of the proud, with them, and they will cling to the house of
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Jacob. Then people will take them and bring
And will lay low the haughtiness of the them to their place, and the house of Israel
terrible.
I will make a mortal more rare than the land of the LORD; they will take them cap-
12 will possess them for servants and maids in
fine gold, tive whose captives they were, and rule over
A man more than the golden wedge of their oppressors.
Ophir. 3
It shall come to pass in the day the LORD
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, gives you rest from your sorrow, and from
And the earth will move out of her your fear and the hard bondage in which you
place, were made to serve, that you will take up this
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In the wrath of the LORD of hosts proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:
And in the day of His fierce anger.
It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
14 “How the oppressor has ceased,
And as a sheep that no man takes up; The golden city ceased!
Every man will turn to his own people, 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the
And everyone will flee to his own land. wicked,
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust The scepter of the rulers;
through, 6 He who struck the people in wrath
And everyone who is captured will fall with a continual stroke,
by the sword. He who ruled the nations in anger,
16 Their children also will be dashed to Is persecuted and no one hinders.
pieces before their eyes; 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
Their houses will be plundered They break forth into singing.
And their wives ravished. 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over
you,
17 “Behold, I will stir up the Medes And the cedars of Lebanon,
against them, Saying, ‘Since you were cut down,
Who will not regard silver; No woodsman has come up against us.’
And as for gold, they will not delight
in it. 9 “Hell from beneath is excited about
18 Also their bows will dash the young you,
men to pieces, To meet you at your coming;
And they will have no pity on the fruit It stirs up the dead for you,
of the womb; All the chief ones of the earth;
Their eye will not spare children. It has raised up from their thrones

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