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32 And the passages are seized and the reeds they have burned with fire and the men of war are frightened.
33 For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while and the time of harvest will come for her.
34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion will say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry. 37 And Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions' cubs. 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice and sleep an everlasting sleep and not wake, says Jehovah. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male-goats.
41 How Sheshach is taken and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 42 The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it. 44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he has swallowed up. And the nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 My people, go out of the midst of her and save yourselves each man from the fierce anger of Jehovah. 46 And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
33 For Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while and the time of harvest will come for her.
34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion will say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry. 37 And Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions' cubs. 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice and sleep an everlasting sleep and not wake, says Jehovah. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male-goats.
41 How Sheshach is taken and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 42 The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it. 44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he has swallowed up. And the nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 My people, go out of the midst of her and save yourselves each man from the fierce anger of Jehovah. 46 And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.