Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
11 The Lord says, "I will bring disaster on the earth and punish all wicked people for their sins. I will humble everyone who is proud and punish everyone who is arrogant and cruel.
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I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
12 Those who survive will be scarcer than gold.
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I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the Lord Almighty, show my anger.
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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
14 "The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, they will all return to their own people, they will flee to their native land.
15 Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.
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Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16 While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped."
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Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
17 The Lord says, "I am stirring up the Medes to attack Babylon. They care nothing for silver and are not tempted by gold.
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See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
18 With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children.
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Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children.
19 Babylonia is the most beautiful kingdom of all; it is the pride of its people. But I, the Lord, will overthrow Babylon as I did Sodom and Gomorrah!
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Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the pride and glory of the Babylonians,will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 No one will ever live there again. No wandering Arab will ever pitch a tent there, and no shepherd will ever pasture a flock there.
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She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; there no nomads will pitch their tents, there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 It will be a place where desert animals live and where owls build their nests. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will prance through the ruins.
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But desert creatures will lie there, jackals will fill her houses; there the owls will dwell, and there the wild goats will leap about.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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