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One shall rush, running to meet runner, and one with tidings to meet with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.
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At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
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For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.
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He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
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My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood upon the Chaldeans dwelling , shall Jerusalem say.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
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And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
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For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
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In their heat I will give them a draught, and make them drunk, that they may be stupified, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, saith the Lord.
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And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
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How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!