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32 and that the fords are captured. And they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are terrified.
33 For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain floor, it is time to tread her. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest will come.
34 Nebu-chadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has devoured us. He has crushed us. He has made us an empty vessel. He has swallowed us like a jackal. He has filled his belly with delicacies. He has thrown me out.
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh is on Babylon, the dweller in Zion shall say. And Jerusalem shall say, My blood shall be on the dwellers of Chaldea.
36 So Jehovah says this: Behold, I will strive for you and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her well dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without a dweller.
38 They shall roar together like lions, they shall growl like lions' cubs.
39 In their heat, I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they rejoice and sleep a never ending sleep and never awaken, says Jehovah.
40 I shall bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!
42 The sea has come up over Babylon, she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43 Her cities have become a ruin, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 My people, go out of her midst, and each man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah.
46 And that your heart not faint, and you fear the report that shall be heard in the land, the report shall come in a year. And after that the report shall come in another year, and there shall be violence in the land, ruler against ruler.