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Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, do not tarry: remember the LORD for many days, and remember Jerusalem.
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We are ashamed, because we have heard the reproach; confusion has covered our faces; for strangers are come against the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will visit her graven images; and through all her
land the wounded unto death shall groan.
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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strength upon high,
yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, said the LORD.
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The sound of a cry
comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
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Because the LORD destroys Babylon and takes out of her the many thunders, her waves shall roar; like many waters shall be the sound of their voice:
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because the destroyer is come against her,
even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bow is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.
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And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise
men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name
is the LORD of the hosts.
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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly cast down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and peoples and nations shall labour in vain in the fire
to save her, and they shall become weary.
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The word which Jeremiah the prophet sent to Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And
this Seraiah
was the chief steward of the bedchambers.
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So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon,
even all these words that are written against Babylon.