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and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps.
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While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the LORD.
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.
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"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
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The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
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Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
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And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
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"Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!
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Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.
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"Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.