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Therefore this is what the LORD says: “See, I will defend your cause and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
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Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.
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Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.
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But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the LORD.
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“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
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“How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!
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The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
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Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.
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I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.
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“Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the LORD.
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Do not lose heart or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land; one rumor comes this year, another the next, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.