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with you I shatter horses and their riders; with you I shatter chariots and their drivers;
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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;
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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.
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No one will make cornerstones or foundation-stones from you again; but you will be desolate forever," says ADONAI.
27
Raise up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the nations. Prepare the nations for war against her. Summon kingdoms against her - Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint an officer against her; bring up horses like bristling grasshoppers.
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Prepare the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, his governors and deputies, and all the land he controls.
29
The earth quakes and writhes, as ADONAI's designs against Bavel are fulfilled, to make the land of Bavel a ruin, with no one living there.
30
Bavel's warriors have given up fighting; they remain in their fortresses; their courage has failed; they are now like women. Her homes are on fire, her gate-bars broken.
31
One runner runs to meet another, messenger to meet messenger, to report to the king of Bavel that every part of his city is taken,