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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.
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How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
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The sea is come up over Babylon:she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.
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And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
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Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.
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And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.
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Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
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And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the Lord.
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And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.
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You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.