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"Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say, 'Babylon has been captured, Bel has beenput to shame, Marduk has beenshattered; Her images have beenput to shame, her idols have beenshattered.'
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"For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be noinhabitant in it. Bothman and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!
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"In thosedays and at that time," declares the LORD, "the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the LORD their God they will seek.
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"They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the LORD in an everlastingcovenant that will not be forgotten.
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"My people have becomelostsheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turnaside on the mountains; They have gone along from mountain to hill And have forgotten their restingplace.