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The great and mighty clouds shall be lifted up full of wrath, and the star, that they may make all the earth afraid and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent place a horrible star,
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fire and hail and flying swords and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters.
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And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.
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And they shall go steadfastly unto Babylon and make her afraid.
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They shall come to her and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her; then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that are about her shall bewail her.
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And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear.
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And thou, Asia, who art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person,
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woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in thy lovers, who have always desired to commit whoredom with thee.
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Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and devices. Therefore saith God,
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"I will send plagues upon thee: widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
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And the glory of thy power shall be dried up as a flower, when the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.