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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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