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The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight ,
they have remained in their holds :
their might hath failed ;
they became as women :
they have burned her dwellingplaces ;
her bars are broken .
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One post shall run to meet another ,
and one messenger to meet another ,
to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end ,
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And that the passages are stopped ,
and the reeds they have burned with fire ,
and the men of war are affrighted .
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor ,
it is time to thresh her :
yet a little while ,
and the time of her harvest shall come .
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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me ,
he hath crushed me ,
he hath made me an empty vessel ,
he hath swallowed me up like a dragon ,
he hath filled his belly with my delicates ,
he hath cast me out .
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The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon ,
shall the inhabitant of Zion say ;
and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea ,
shall Jerusalem say .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will plead thy cause ,
and take vengeance for thee ;
and I will dry up her sea ,
and make her springs dry .
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And Babylon shall become heaps ,
a dwellingplace for dragons ,
an astonishment ,
and an hissing ,
without an inhabitant .
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They shall roar together like lions :
they shall yell as lions '
whelps .
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In their heat I will make their feasts ,
and I will make them drunken ,
that they may rejoice ,
and sleep a perpetual sleep ,
and not wake ,
saith the LORD .
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter ,
like rams with he goats .
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How is Sheshach taken !
and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised !
how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations !
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The sea is come up upon Babylon :
she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof .
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Her cities are a desolation ,
a dry land ,
and a wilderness ,
a land wherein no man dwelleth ,
neither doth any son of man pass thereby .
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And I will punish Bel in Babylon ,
and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up :
and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him :
yea ,
the wall of Babylon shall fall .
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My people ,
go ye out of the midst of her ,
and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD .
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And lest your heart faint ,
and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land ;
a rumour shall both come one year ,
and after that in another year shall come a rumour ,
and violence in the land ,
ruler against ruler .
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon :
and her whole land shall be confounded ,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her .
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Then the heaven and the earth ,
and all that is therein ,
shall sing for Babylon :
for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north ,
saith the LORD .
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As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall ,
so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth .
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Ye that have escaped the sword ,
go away ,
stand not still :
remember the LORD afar off ,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind .
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We are confounded ,
because we have heard reproach :
shame hath covered our faces :
for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD '
S house .
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Wherefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will do judgment upon her graven images :
and through all her land the wounded shall groan .
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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven ,
and though she should fortify the height of her strength ,
yet from me shall spoilers come unto her ,
saith the LORD .
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A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon ,
and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans :
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Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon ,
and destroyed out of her the great voice ;
when her waves do roar like great waters ,
a noise of their voice is uttered :
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Because the spoiler is come upon her ,
even upon Babylon ,
and her mighty men are taken ,
every one of their bows is broken :
for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite .
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And I will make drunk her princes ,
and her wise men ,
her captains ,
and her rulers ,
and her mighty men :
and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep ,
and not wake ,
saith the King ,
whose name is the LORD of hosts .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken ,
and her high gates shall be burned with fire ;
and the people shall labour in vain ,
and the folk in the fire ,
and they shall be weary .