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Lift up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me, and for the people of Achanaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.
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Bring up nations against her, the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.
29
The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.
30
The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
31
One shall rush, running to meet runner, and one with tidings to meet with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.
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At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
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For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.
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He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
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My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood upon the Chaldeans dwelling , shall Jerusalem say.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
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And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.