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"I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with hegoats.
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"How Sheshach is taken! And how the praise of the whole earth is surprised! How Babylon has become an astonishment among the nations!
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The sea has come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
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And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him. Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
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"My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
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And lest your heart faint and ye fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land--a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor and violence in the land, ruler against ruler"
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therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
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Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon, for the despoilers shall come unto her from the north," saith the LORD.
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As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
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Ye that have escaped the sword, go away; stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.