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1Prepare
2the nations for war against her, the kings of
3the Medes,
4with their governors
5and deputies, and every
6land under their dominion.
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7The land trembles and writhes in pain,
8for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
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The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed;
9they have become women;
10her dwellings are on fire;
11her bars are broken.
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One
12runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;
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the fords have been
13seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.
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For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
14The daughter of Babylon is like
15a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and
16the time of her harvest will come."
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"Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
17has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel;
18he has swallowed me like
19a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.
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The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say.
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Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold,
20I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you.
21I will dry up her sea and
22make her fountain dry,
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and Babylon shall become
23a heap of ruins,
24the haunt of jackals,
25a horror
26and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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27"They shall roar together
28like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.