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"King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has spewed me out.
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May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon," the inhabitants of Zion shall say. "May my blood be avenged on the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem shall say.
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Therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry;
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and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.
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Like lions they shall roar together; they shall growl like lions' whelps.
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When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink and make them drunk, until they become merry and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the Lord.
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
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How Sheshach is taken, the pride of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
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The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.
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Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no mortal passes.
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I will punish Bel in Babylon, and make him disgorge what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer stream to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.