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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!
42
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.
46
So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
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For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.
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And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
49
As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.
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You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
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We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.