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Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold,
1I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you.
2I will dry up her sea and
3make her fountain dry,
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and Babylon shall become
4a heap of ruins,
5the haunt of jackals,
6a horror
7and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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8"They shall roar together
9like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.
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10While they are inflamed
11I will prepare them a feast and
12make them drunk, that they may become merry,
13then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.
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"How
14Babylon is taken,
15the praise of the whole earth
16seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
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17The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
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Her cities have become a horror,
18a land of drought and a desert,
19a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
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And I will punish
20Bel in Babylon, and
21take out of his mouth
22what he has swallowed.
23The nations shall no longer flow to him;
24the wall of Babylon has fallen.
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"Go out of the midst of her,
25my people! Let every one save his life from
26the fierce anger of the LORD!
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Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful
27at the report heard in the land,
28when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land,
29and ruler is against ruler.