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May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.
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For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
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And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
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They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
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When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
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I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
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How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
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The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
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Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
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And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.
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My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.