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You are my war club, my weapon of battle: with you I smash nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;
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with you I smash the horse and its rider; with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;
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with you I smash man and woman; with you I smash the old man and the boy; with you I smash the young man and the girl;
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with you I smash shepherds and their flocks; with you I smash farmers and their teams; with you I smash governors and deputies.
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I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.
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I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, that destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burned-out mountain.
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No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the Lord.
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Raise a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.
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Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
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The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
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The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her buildings are set on fire, her bars are broken.