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with you I shatter husbands and wives; with you I shatter old and young; with you I shatter young men and virgins;
23
with you I shatter shepherds and their flocks; with you I shatter farmers and their teams; with you I shatter governors and deputies.
24
"But I will repay Bavel and all living in the land of the Kasdim for all the evil they did in Tziyon," says ADONAI, "before your eyes [, Y'hudah]."
25
"I am against you, destructive mountain, destroying all the earth," says ADONAI. "I will stretch out my hand against you, to send you tumbling down from the crags and make you a burned-out mountain.
26
No one will make cornerstones or foundation-stones from you again; but you will be desolate forever," says ADONAI.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.