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Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause
the horses to come up as raised up locusts.
28
Prepare the nations against her: the kings of Media, the captains thereof, and all the princes thereof, and all the land of their dominion.
29
And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every thought of the LORD is confirmed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight; they have remained in
their holds; their might has failed; they became as women: the
enemies have burned her dwellingplaces; they have broken her bars.
31
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken in all places,
32
And the fords were taken, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war were astounded.
33
For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: The daughter of Babylon
is like a threshingfloor;
it is now time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; he has cast me out.
35
The violence against me and my flesh
be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36
Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I judge thy cause and shall take thy vengeance; and I will dry up her sea and make her flowing
waters dry.
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And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.