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20 You scatter for Me the weapons of war, and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.
21 And by you I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by you I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
22 And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.
23 And by you I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by you I will scatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and by you I will scatter leaders and the captains.
24 And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell there all the evil that they have done to Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
25 Behold, I am against you, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and will roll you down upon the rocks, and will make you as a burnt mountain.
26 And they shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation; for you shall be a desolation forever, says the Lord.
27 Set 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 Ashkenaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.
28 Bring up nations against her, even 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 have become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
31 One shall rush, running to meet another runner, and one shall go with tidings to meet another with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.
32 At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burned with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
33 For thus says 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.
34 He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
35 My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Zion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will judge your adversary, and I will execute vengeance for you; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
37 And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
38 For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
39 In their excitement I will give them a drink, and make them drunk, that they may be stupefied, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.
40 And bring them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
41 How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
42 The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered.
43 Her cities have become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one soul shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.
44 And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her.
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