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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 stedfastly 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 be 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, that 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, which have always desired to commit whoredom with thee.
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Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions: 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, the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.
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Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee.
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Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,