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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.
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How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
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The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.
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Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no human being passes through.
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I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon's wall will fall.
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Come out from among her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the Lord's burning anger.
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May you not become faint-hearted and fearful when the report is proclaimed in the land, for the report will come one year, and then another the next year. There will be violence in the land with ruler against ruler.
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Therefore, look, the days are coming when I will punish Babylon's carved images. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
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Heaven and earth and everything in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
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Babylon must fall [because of] the slain of Israel, even as the slain of all the earth fell because of Babylon.
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You who have escaped the sword, go and do not stand still! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.