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For Israel hath not been forsaken ,
nor Judah of his God ,
of the LORD of hosts ;
though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel .
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Flee out of the midst of Babylon ,
and deliver every man his soul :
be not cut off in her iniquity ;
for this is the time of the LORD '
S vengeance ;
he will render unto her a recompence .
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Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD '
S hand ,
that made all the earth drunken :
the nations have drunken of her wine ;
therefore the nations are mad .
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Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed :
howl for her ;
take balm for her pain ,
if so be she may be healed .
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We would have healed Babylon ,
but she is not healed :
forsake her ,
and let us go every one into his own country :
for her judgment reacheth unto heaven ,
and is lifted up even to the skies .
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The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness :
come ,
and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God .
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Make bright the arrows ;
gather the shields :
the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes :
for his device is against Babylon ,
to destroy it ;
because it is the vengeance of the LORD ,
the vengeance of his temple .
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Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon ,
make the watch strong ,
set up the watchmen ,
prepare the ambushes :
for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon .
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O thou that dwellest upon many waters ,
abundant in treasures ,
thine end is come ,
and the measure of thy covetousness .
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The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself ,
saying ,
Surely I will fill thee with men ,
as with caterpillers ;
and they shall lift up a shout against thee .
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He hath made the earth by his power ,
he hath established the world by his wisdom ,
and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding .
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When he uttereth his voice ,
there is a multitude of waters in the heavens ;
and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth :
he maketh lightnings with rain ,
and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures .
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Every man is brutish by his knowledge ;
every founder is confounded by the graven image :
for his molten image is falsehood ,
and there is no breath in them .
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They are vanity ,
the work of errors :
in the time of their visitation they shall perish .
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The portion of Jacob is not like them ;
for he is the former of all things :
and Israel is the rod of his inheritance :
the LORD of hosts is his name .
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Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war :
for with thee will I break in pieces the nations ,
and with thee will I destroy kingdoms ;
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And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider ;
and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider ;
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With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman ;
and with thee will I break in pieces old and young ;
and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid ;
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I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock ;
and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen ;
and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers .
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And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight ,
saith the LORD .
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Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O destroying mountain ,
saith the LORD ,
which destroyest all the earth :
and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee ,
and roll thee down from the rocks ,
and will make thee a burnt mountain .
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And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner ,
nor a stone for foundations ;
but thou shalt be desolate for ever ,
saith the LORD .
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Set ye up a standard in the land ,
blow the trumpet among the nations ,
prepare the nations against her ,
call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat ,
Minni ,
and Ashchenaz ;
appoint a captain against her ;
cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers .
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Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes ,
the captains thereof ,
and all the rulers thereof ,
and all the land of his dominion .
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And the land shall tremble and sorrow :
for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon ,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant .
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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 .