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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.
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We're humiliated by their taunts; we're disgraced that strangers have violated the sacred places of the LORD's temple.
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The time is coming, declares the LORD, when I will deal with her idols, and the wounded in her land will groan.
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Even if Babylon scales the heavens and strengthens its towering defenses, the destroying armies will still come against her, at my command, declares the LORD.
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Listen to the cries for help from Babylon, signs of massive devastation in the land, declares the LORD.
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The LORD is destroying Babylon and silencing her outcry, whose roar is like the crushing waves, a deafening crash.
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He certainly comes against her; the destroyer comes against Babylon. Her warriors are captured; their bows are broken. The LORD is an exacting God who repays in full.
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I'll make her leaders and sages drunk, her governors, officials, and warriors as well. They will sleep forever, never to get up, declares the king, whose name is the LORD of heavenly forces.
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The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: Babylon's massive walls will come down, down to the ground; and its high gates will be burned to the ground. People labor in vain; nations toil for nothing but ashes!
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This is what the prophet Jeremiah instructed the staff officer Seraiah, Neriah's son and Mahseiah's grandson, when Seraiah went to Babylon with Judah's King Zedekiah in the fourth year of his rule. Jeremiah's words end here.
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Jeremiah wrote down in a single scroll all the disasters that would happen to Babylon—all these things concerning Babylon.