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One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon 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 affrighted.
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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon 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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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
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The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
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And Babylon 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, saith Jehovah.
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
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How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!