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32 the fords occupied; the fens burnt up; and the soldiers sore afraid.
33 For thus says the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, just a little while and the time of the 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 May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon," says the inhabitant of Zion. "May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea," says Jerusalem.
36 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38 They'll roar together like young lions; they'll growl like lion cubs.
39 When they're excited I'll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they're merry. They'll sleep forever and won't wake up," declares the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-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 came up against Babylon with its roaring waves, and she is overwhelmed.
43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
44 I'll punish Bel in Babylon, and I'll make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth. The nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 »Get out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the burning anger of the LORD.
46 "Do not lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land. One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year. Rumors of violence are in the land. Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.