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But one who lives in Tziyon will say, "May my torn flesh be avenged on Bavel"; and Yerushalayim will say, "May my blood be avenged on the Kasdim."
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Therefore here is what ADONAI says: "I will plead your cause. I will take vengeance for you. I will dry up her river and make her water sources dry.
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Bavel will become a heap of ruins, a place for jackals to live, an object of horror and hissing, with no one living there.
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Together they roar like young lions, growl like lion cubs.
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When they are hot with desire, I will prepare them a drink. I will make them so drunk they will have convulsions, sleep forever and never wake up," says ADONAI.
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"I will drag them down like lambs to be slaughtered, like rams and male goats."
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Sheshakh has been captured, the pride of the whole earth seized! Bavel has become an object of horror throughout the nations!
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The sea has flooded Bavel, overwhelmed her with its raging waves.
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Her cities have become desolate - parched, arid land, a land where no one lives; nobody even passes through.
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"I will punish Bel in Bavel and make him disgorge what he swallowed. The nations will no longer flow to him. Bavel's wall will fall.
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Get out of her, my people! Each one, save yourself from ADONAI's furious anger!