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"They seize their bow and javelin; They are cruel and havenomercy. Their voiceroars like the sea; And they ride on horses, Marshalled like a man for the battleAgainst you, O daughter of Babylon.
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"Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them runaway from it, and whoever is chosen I will appointover it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And whothen is the shepherdwho can standbefore Me?"
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Thereforehear the plan of the LORDwhich He has plannedagainstBabylon, and His purposeswhich He has purposedagainst the land of the Chaldeans: surely* they will drag them off, even the littleones of the flock; surely* He will make their pasturedesolatebecause of them.