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One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Bavel that his city is taken on every quarter:
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and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
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For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Yisra'el: The daughter of Bavel is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
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Nevukhadretztzar the king of Bavel has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
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The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Bavel, shall the inhabitant of Tziyon say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Kasdim, shall Yerushalayim say.
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Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
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Bavel shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.
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When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
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How is Sheshakh taken! and the praise of the whole eretz seized! how is Bavel become a desolation among the nations!