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For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from
the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken:
their arrows
shall be
as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
10
And Chaldea shall be
a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the L
ORD
.
11
Because ye were glad, because ye
rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and
bellow as bulls;
12
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:
behold, the hindermost of the nations
shall be
a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13
Because of
the wrath of the L
ORD
it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth
by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14
Put yourselves in array against Babylon
round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the
L
ORD
.
15
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her
walls are thrown down: for it
is
the vengeance of the L
ORD
: take vengeance upon her; as she hath
done, do unto her.
16
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time
of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall
flee every one to his own land.
17
Israel
is
a scattered sheep; the lions have driven
him
away: first the king of Assyria hath
devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18
Therefore
thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his
land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
19
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and
he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20
In those days, and in that time, saith the L
ORD
, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and
there
shall be
none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
reserve.
21
Go up against the land of Merathaim,
even
against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod:
waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the L
ORD
, and do according to all that I have commanded
thee.
22
A sound of battle
is
in the land, and of great destruction.
23
How is the hammer of the whole
earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24
I have
laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found,
and also caught, because thou hast striven against the L
ORD
.
25
The L
ORD
hath opened his armoury,
and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this
is
the work of the Lord GOD of
hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses:
cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27
Slay all her bullocks; let
them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance
of the L
ORD
our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29
Call together the archers against Babylon: all
ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according
to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the
L
ORD
, against the Holy One of Israel.
30
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all
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