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Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard;publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her landdesolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4
In those days, and in that time,saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judahtogether,going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their facesthitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetualcovenant that shall not be forgotten.
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My people hath been lostsheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.