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\v 1 Yahweh gave to Jeremiah the prophet a message about Babylon and the country of Babylonia.
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\v 2 This is what Yahweh says:
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\q1 "Proclaim a message among the nations;
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\q2 do not withhold any of it;
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\q1 raise up a signal flag
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\q2 to announce that Babylon will be captured.
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\q1 Its chief god Marduk, whose other name is Bel, will be completely disgraced,
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\q2 and all the other statues and idols will be shattered.
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\q1
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\v 3 The army of a nation will come from the north to attack Babylon
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\q2 and destroy the city very thoroughly,
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\q1 with the result that no one will live there again.
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\q2 Both people and animals will run away."
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\q1
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\v 4 "But I, Yahweh, say that in the future, when that is about to happen,
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\q2 the people of Israel and the people of Judah will join together.
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\q1 They will be weeping
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\q2 and wanting to worship me, their God.
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\q1
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\v 5 They will inquire about the road to Jerusalem,
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\q2 and then they will start traveling toward it.
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\q1 They will say to each other,
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\q2 'We must return to Yahweh again!'
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\q2 They will make an everlasting agreement with me that they will never forget.
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\q1
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\v 6 My people have been like lost sheep.
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\q2 Their leaders have caused them to abandon me
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\q2 like shepherds who have allowed their sheep to wander in the hills and mountains.
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\q1 My people are like sheep
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\q2 that do not know the path to return to the sheepfold.
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\q1
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\v 7 All their enemies who found them attacked them.
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\q2 They said, 'We did not sin by attacking them,
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\q1 because they sinned against Yahweh;
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\q2 he is the one who provides what they need;
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\q1 he is the one to whom they should have remained faithful;
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\q2 he is the one whom their ancestors confidently expected to help them.'
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\q1
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\v 8 But now, I say to the leaders of my people, 'Depart from Babylon!
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\q2 Leave the land of Babylonia!
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\q1 Act like male goats that go in front of the rest of the flock;
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\q2 lead my people back to their own land.
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\q1
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\v 9 Do that because I am going to gather an army of great nations to the north of Babylon.
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\q2 They will join together to attack Babylon and will capture it.
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\q1 Their arrows will be like skilled warriors
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\q2 that always hit what they are aiming at.
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\v 10 Babylonia will be conquered,
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\q2 and those who conquer it will take away everything they want.
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\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
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\q1
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\v 11 "You people of Babylon who plundered my chosen people,
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\q2 now you are very happy .
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\q1 You run around joyfully like a calf in a meadow,
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\q2 and are happy like stallions are happy when they are neighing.
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\q1
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\v 12 But soon your people will be very disgraced as a result of being conquered.
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\q2 Your country will be the most insignificant nation;
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\q2 it will be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert plain.
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\v 13 Because I, Yahweh, am angry with you people of Babylon,
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\q2 I will cause your city to become completely deserted.
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\q1 All who pass by will be horrified
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\q2 and will gasp because of the destruction there.
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\v 14 All you nations that surround Babylon,
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\q2 prepare to attack it!
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\q1 Tell your archers to shoot at their enemies;
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\q2 shoot all of your arrows at them and do not hold back,
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\q2 because the people of Babylon have sinned against me, Yahweh.
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\v 15 Shout victorious war cries against Babylon from all sides of the city.
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\q2 The soldiers of Babylon will surrender;
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\q2 the towers and walls will be torn down.
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\q1 It is I, Yahweh, who will be getting revenge on the people of Babylon,
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\q2 and I will use you to get revenge.
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\q2 Do to the people of Babylon what they have done to others!
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\q1
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\v 16 Take away from Babylon those who plant crops
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\q2 and those who reap the harvests!
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\q1 Because of the swords carried by those who will attack Babylon,
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\q2 the people in Babylon who have come from other countries
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\q2 should all run away; they should go back to their own countries."
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\q1
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\v 17 "The Israelite people are like sheep
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\q2 that have been scattered by lions.
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\q1 First the army of the king of Assyria defeated them.
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\q2 Then the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon smashed them.
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\v 18 So this is what I, Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, say:
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\q1 'Now I will punish the king of Babylon and the people of his land,
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\q2 like I punished the king of Assyria.
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\v 19 And I will bring the people of Israel back to their own land
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\q2 where they will eat the food that grows in the fields of the regions of Carmel and Bashan,
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\q1 and the people in the hill areas of Ephraim and Gilead will have all they want to eat.
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\v 20 At that time, there will not be people in Israel and in Judah who are still guilty for having sinned ,
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\q2 because I will forgive the small group of people whom I enable to still be alive.'"
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\v 21 "So, I, Yahweh, say to the enemies of Babylonia, 'Attack the people who live in the region of Merathaim
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\q2 and the people in the region of Pekod of Babylonia.
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\q1 Pursue them to kill them, and completely get rid of every single one of them,
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\q2 as I have commanded you to do.
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\v 22 Shout your battle cries throughout the land;
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\q2 shout when you are causing great destruction.
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\v 23 The army of Babylon is like the most powerful hammer on the earth,
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\q2 but it will be completely shattered.
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\q1 Babylon will be deserted among the other nations.'
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\v 24 You people of Babylon, listen,
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\q2 because I have set a trap for you without your awareness;
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\q1 you will be caught in that trap,
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\q2 because you fought against me.
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\v 25 It is as though I have opened the place where I store my weapons,
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\q2 and I have brought out all the weapons
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\q2 to use against the people with whom I am angry.
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\q1 I, Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, have a lot of work to do
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\q2 to punish the people of Babylonia.
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\v 26 So, you enemies of Babylonia, come from distant lands and attack it.
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\q2 Break open the places where they store the grain,
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\q2 and pile up the rubble like heaps of grain.
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\q1 Destroy everything completely;
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\q2 do not leave anything that is not destroyed.
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\v 27 Destroy all the young warriors who are as strong as bulls;
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\q2 take them to where you will slaughter them.
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\q1 It will be terrible for them,
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\q2 because it will be time for them to be punished.
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\v 28 Listen to the people who have fled and escaped from Babylon
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\q2 while they tell in Jerusalem how I, Yahweh, have gotten revenge against those who destroyed my temple in Jerusalem.
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\v 29 Summon archers to come to attack Babylon;
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\q2 surround the city
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\q2 in order that no one will escape.
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\q1 Do to the people of Babylon what they have done to others ,
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\q2 because they have defied me, the Holy One of the Israelite people.
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\v 30 The young men of Babylon will fall in the streets;
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\q2 all their soldiers will be killed in one day. This will happen because I, Yahweh, have declared it!
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\v 31 I, Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, say this:
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\q2 'You arrogant people,
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\q1 it is now the time;
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\q2 it is the day when I will punish you.
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\v 32 Your land is full of proud people,
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\q2 but you will stumble and fall,
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\q1 and no one will lift you up again.
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\q1 I will light a fire in the cities of Babylonia
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\q2 that will burn up everything that is nearby.'
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\v 33 I, Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, also say this:
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\q1 'The people of Israel and Judah were oppressed;
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\q2 those who captured them guarded them carefully and would not allow them to leave Babylon.
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\v 34 But I am strong, and I will free them.
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\q2 I am Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies;
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\q1 I will defend my people
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\q2 and enable them to return to their land where they will have peace,
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\q1 but the people of Babylonia will not have peace.
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\v 35 I will send enemy soldiers carrying swords to strike the people of Babylonia;
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\q2 they will strike the officials and wise men
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\q2 and all the other people who live in Babylon.
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\v 36 They will strike their false prophets with swords
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\q2 and they will become foolish.
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\q1 They will strike the strongest warriors of Babylonia,
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\q2 and they will all be terrified.
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\v 37 They will strike their horses and chariots
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\q2 and the foreign mercenaries who are in the army of Babylonia,
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\q2 and they will all become as weak as women.
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\q1 They will seize all the valuable things there in Babylon
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\q2 and take them away.
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\v 38 I will cause the streams to become dry.
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\q1 I will do all those things because the entire land of Babylonia is filled with idols,
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\q2 and those horrible idols have caused the people who worship them to become crazy.
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\v 39 Soon only jackals and other wild creatures will live there;
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\q2 and it will be a place where ostriches live.
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\q1 People will never live there again;
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\q2 it will be uninhabited forever .
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\v 40 I will destroy Babylon like I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns;
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\q2 no one will ever live there again .
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\v 41 Look! A great army will come from the north.
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\q2 A great nation far away with many kings is preparing to attack you people of Babylon.
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\v 42 Their army has bows and arrows and spears;
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\q2 they are very cruel, and do not act mercifully to anyone.
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\q1 As they ride along on their horses,
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\q2 the sound of the horses' hooves is like the roaring of the ocean waves;
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\q1 they are riding in battle formation
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\q2 to attack you, you people of Babylon.
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\v 43 The king of Babylon says,
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\q1 "I have heard reports about the enemy approaching;
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\q2 so I am very frightened, with the result that I am weak.
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\q1 I am very fearful, and anguished,
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\q2 like a woman who is about to give birth to a baby."
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\v 44 I, Yahweh, will come to Babylon suddenly like a lion comes out of the jungle
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\q2 and leaps on the sheep that are eating the good pastureland.
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\q1 I will quickly chase the people of Babylonia from their land.
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\q2 And then I will appoint for them a leader whom I will choose;
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\q1 I will do that because there is no one like me who can say that what I have done is not right.
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\q2 No ruler can oppose me.
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\v 45 Listen to what I have planned to do to the people of Babylon city and the rest of Babylonia:
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\q1 even the little children will be dragged away,
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\q2 and I will completely destroy the people who live there.
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\v 46 When Babylon is destroyed, the noise will be extremely loud,
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\q2 with the result that the earth will shake,
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\q1 and the wailing of the people will be heard by the people of other nations.'"
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