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I'll lead them off like lambs for slaughter, like rams and goats.
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How Sheshach has been defeated, the pride of the whole earth taken captive! How Babylon has become a wasteland among the nations!
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The sea has risen over Babylon; its pounding waves overwhelm her.
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Her towns are devastated; her land is scorched and barren, a place where no one lives or dares to pass through.
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I will punish Bel in Babylon; I will force him to vomit what he's consumed. Then nations will no longer stream to him, and Babylon's walls will collapse!
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Get out of Babylon, my people! Run for your lives from the LORD's fierce anger.
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Don't be distracted or frightened by the rumors you hear in the land. Sometimes you hear one thing and another time something else: rumors of violence and uprisings.
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The time is coming when I will deal with Babylon's idols; the whole land will be disgraced, and her wounded will fall in her midst.
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Then all creation will rejoice over Babylon, because out of the north destroying armies will come to attack her, declares the LORD.
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Babylon must fall for the dead in Israel, as the dead of all the earth have fallen to Babylon.
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You survivors of war, leave now; don't delay! Remember the LORD, from a faraway land. Keep Jerusalem alive in your hearts.