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Soon the enemy will cut them down and trample them like grain on a threshing place. I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have spoken."
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The king of Babylonia cut Jerusalem up and ate it. He emptied the city like a jar; like a monster he swallowed it. He took what he wanted and threw the rest away.
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Let the people of Zion say, "May Babylonia be held responsible for the violence done to us!" Let the people of Jerusalem say, "May Babylonia be held responsible for what we have suffered!"
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And so the Lord said to the people of Jerusalem, "I will take up your cause and will make your enemies pay for what they did to you. I will dry up the source of Babylonia's water and make its rivers go dry.
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That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.
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The Babylonians all roar like lions and growl like lion cubs.
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Are they greedy? I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk and happy. They will go to sleep and never wake up.
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I will take them to be slaughtered, like lambs, goats, and rams. I, the Lord, have spoken."
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The Lord says about Babylon: "The city that the whole world praised has been captured! What a horrifying sight Babylon has become to the nations!
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The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.
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The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.