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And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
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The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.
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Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared not, he rested in quiet.
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All the earth cries aloud with joy:
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the trees also of Libanus rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Libanus, , From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.